(1) LEAVE granted.

(2) THE first respondent was a student of B.E. Degree pursuing his study in the Engineering College, respondent 2.

(3) ON 14/12/1989 the Principal of the second respondent- college brought to the notice of the Madurai Kamaraj University (the Controller of Examinations) certain malpractices committed by students in the Examinations. These malpractices affected innocent and intelligent students. Inter alia the Principal subsequently referred to the case of the first respondent who interchanged his roll number 533276 with that of another student (K.R. Gandhi) whose roll number was 533275. It was stated that during the academic years 1986-87 to 1989-90 in regard to semester examinations III and IV, V and VI, the first respondent and the said Gandhi used to be seated one behind the other in the examination hall. In view of the good academic record of said Gandhi who used to answer better than the first respondent, he was systematically interchanging his roll number with that of Gandhi on the answer books in some of the subjects in all the four semester examinations. This resulted in first respondent passing all the examinations concerned with goo