HARISH CHANDRA SHARMA Vs. VICE CHANCELLOR UNIVERSITY OF BIHAR

JUDGEMENT

(1.) The case of the petitioner in this case is that his younger brother, Ramanand Prasad Singh, who was a student of Langat Singh College, Muzatfarpur, had appeared at the 1962 Annual B. Sc. Examination with Honours course in Mathematics of the University of Binar. The examination commenced on the 14th March, 1952, but on the 29th March, 1962, a notice was issued by the Centre Superintendent of the examination cancelling the examination in Mathematics Honours Paper V for the B.A. and B.Sc. (Hons) examination. A copy of the notice is annexure A to the application and reads as follows:

(2.) There was also a prayer made on behalf of tne petitioner for issue of an injunction restraining the University of Bihar from holding the B.Sc. Mathematics (Hons) examination from the 1st June, 1962, which was the adjourned date. The prayer of the petitioner was refused and it appears from the counter-affidavit of the respon dents that the re-examination of the candidates was actually commenced on the 11th of June and was completed on the 19th of June, 1962. It also appears from the counter-affidavit that the total number of candidates appearing in the re-examination was 75.

(3.) Cause has been shewn on behalf of the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bihar, respondent No. 1, and the other respondents to whom notice of the rule was ordered to be given.