By IANS
Bhubaneswar : Eight-year-old whiz kid Millennium Bismay of Orissa is to move the Supreme Court against the verdict of a lower court that ruled he could not pass Class 10 before he turned 14, his lawyer said Wednesday.
“The boy will move the Supreme Court next week through his guardian against the Orissa High Court judgement,” Bismay’s lawyer Ashok Mohapatra told IANS. “The boy is shocked and dejected after hearing Tuesday’s judgement,” he said.
“The boy did not fit into any categories of candidates eligible to appear for the matriculate examination conducted by the Board of Secondary Education because he was underage and had not received any formal education,” the court had ruled.
The wonder boy is a native of Sarcha village in the coastal district of Balasore, 230 km from here, and does not study in any school but has demonstrated extraordinary memory power.
Although he qualified in a pre-test examination with 62 percent marks in a subject competency test conducted by the Board of Secondary Education (BSE) last year, the board did not permit him to sit for the Class 10 exam.
It said that Bismay was psychologically not fit for the exam. Citing rules, the board said students below 14 could not sit for the exam.
The boy through his uncle had moved the Orissa High Court against the board. A day before the exams began, a division bench of the court directed the state government and BSE in an interim order to allow the boy to sit for it.
Though the board allowed the boy to sit for the public examination conducted March 7-16, it refused to declare his results, saying the matter was sub-judice.
The boy through his uncle had moved the High Court to direct the board to publish his results.
A division bench of Orissa High court comprising Justice P.K. Tripathy and Justice R.N. Biswal Tuesday rejected all petitions filed by the boy’s uncle and ruled that Bismay could not pass Class 10 before he turned 14.
“We cannot allow the boy’s results to be published because the rules governing the BSE cannot be superseded,” it held.
“I am shocked,” Bismay said on hearing the judgement. “I am no more interested in studies and don’t want to sit for any exam,” the boy told IANS.
“My son’s mental state is not good,” Bismay’s father Laximikanta Behera said. “I am upset because we did not get justice.”