Bengaluru: The State government which had earlier claimed that no grace marks were awarded to II PU Mathematics students tendered an unconditional written apology to the High Court on Monday, for misleading the court by making wrong submission.

Advocate General Madhusudhan R Naik said that there was some miscommunication in the Pre-University Board and that led to the wrong submissions in the court. He also informed that grace marks were awarded to the students.

The court was hearing an interlocutory application for recalling its earlier order dismissing a PIL against award of grace marks. Chief Justice S K Mukherjee and Justice Ravi Malimath said that no irresponsible submissions should be made in court without proper instructions from the government.

The PIL was filed by Bhuvanjyothi Education Trust, a CBSE school located in Dakshina Kannada district saying, the awarding grace marks would adversely affect the CET rankings of students who have completed the course under CBSE syllabus.

During the hearing, the advocates representing the government and PU department had asserted that grace marks had not been given to students as it was found that none of the questions were out of syllabus to qualify for grace marks.

The litigant in the proceedings then verified the claim by securing copies of answer sheet of students. It proved the fact that grace marks had been awarded for question where the students had just mentioned the question numbers instead of answers.

The High Court served notice on the State government and PU department for which an unconditional apology was tendered by the State government.