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PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Tuesday summoned the chairman and controller of examinations of the Peshawar Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education over the awarding of zero marks to a ninth-grade student in a Biology theory paper.<\/strong><\/p>\n A two-member bench comprising Justice Ijaz Anwar and Justice Babar Sattar heard a petition challenging the student\u2019s zero marks in the Biology paper.<\/p>\n Counsel for the petitioner, Ameen-ur-Rehman Yousafzai Advocate, told the court that the petitioner was a ninth-grade student who had been awarded zero marks in the Biology theory examination.<\/p>\n Justice Ijaz Anwar asked what had happened in the matter. The student\u2019s father informed the court that the issue had been resolved.<\/p>\n \u201cSuch matters cannot be resolved this way,\u201d Justice Ijaz Anwar remarked.<\/p>\n The counsel representing the Peshawar Board explained that examination papers are assigned computer-generated codes when they are sent to the board. He said the student\u2019s paper had inadvertently been assigned another number, resulting in the error.<\/p>\n Justice Ijaz Anwar expressed concern over the incident and questioned how many other students might have faced similar problems without being able to approach the court.<\/p>\n \u201cThis child was the son of a lawyer, so the matter came before the court and the mistake was discovered,\u201d the judge remarked.<\/p>\n \u201cHow many other students may have suffered in this way? Not everyone can come to court. You are playing with the future of these children,\u201d Justice Ijaz Anwar said.<\/p>\n He further observed that such cases were repeatedly being brought before the court, with students receiving fewer marks and the boards later attributing the problem to a mistake.<\/p>\n