MAMTA KUMARI Vs. BOARD OF SEC EDUCATION RAJ

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS writ petition has been filed by the petitioners with the prayer that the respondents be directed to declare their result of Senior Secondary Examination (Hum.), 2009.

(2.) ALL the petitioners are regular students of 12th Class (Senior Secondary) of Indira Gandhi Balika Niketan Senior Secondary School, Ardawata, Tehsil Chirawa, District Jhunjhunu. The Senior Secondary Examination (Hum.), 2009 had commenced from 12.03.2009. The petitioners were allotted Center (No.15156) Indira Gandhi Balika Niketan Senior Secondary School, Ardawata. The result of Senior Secondary School Examination, 2009 was declared by respondents on 10.06.2009. But the result of the petitioners was withheld. Thereafter, the respondents had sent letters to petitioners on 6th and 7th July, 2009 mentioning that they have adopted unfair means in two papers of the examination namely, English (Compulsory) and History Second. The petitioners were asked to appear personally on 14.07.2009, at 11.00 am.

(3.) 1 have given my anxious and thoughtful consideration to the submissions made by the counsel for the rival parties and perused the material on record, particularly the one placed by the respondent Board alongwith the reply. At the outset, it would be relevant to note here the provisions of law and the instructions/directions issued by the respondent Board to the Superintendents of the Examination Centres as well as the Examiners. The enactment with regard to unfair means was promulgated in State of Rajasthan in the year 1992 and the Act is called Rajasthan Public Examination (Prevention of Unfair Means) Act, 1992.