(1.) Almost three decades back, the Supreme Court poetically voiced its concerned in the case of Controller of Examinations v. G. S. Sunder, reported in 1992 (2) GLH 140, against the vice of copying at the examination and described the unhealthy practice as poisonous weeds in the field of education which needs to be rooted out in order that the innocent and the intelligent students do not suffer. In para 10 of the judgment the Supreme Court expressed as under:
(2.) This we should do so that posterity does not blame us and learning is not ridiculed.
(3.) By this writ application under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, the writ applicant, a student pursuing his studies in engineering with the respondent No.2-Institute has prayed for the following reliefs;