The Supreme Court of Sri Lanka has issued an interim injunction today suspending the release of the 2024 Grade 05 Scholarship Examination results. 

The court issued the order after deliberating a Fundamental Rights (FR) petition filed by a group of parents and students.

Filing the petition, the group challenged the conduct of the 2024 Grade 05 Scholarship Examination.

The Grade 05 Scholarship Examination, which was held in September, faced a crisis after a mock paper was shared with the questions that had been featured in the exam paper. 

A practice paper with questions similar to some of the questions in the first paper of the scholarship exam was circulated by a tuition teacher in the Alawwa area prior to the exam.

At the time, the Department of Examinations launched an investigation into the matter following complaints filed by various parties.

A complaint was lodged by a Deputy Commissioner of the Examinations Department, prompting an investigation by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) as well.

The Police thereafter, arrested two suspects in connection with the alleged leaking of questions from the Grade 5 scholarship exam. 

Following this, the Commissioner General of Examinations announced that the examination would not be re-held despite controversy over three leaked questions and that all students would receive full marks for these questions.