( 1 ) FIRST of the petitions W. P. 11247/96 by seven petitioners under Art. 226 of the Constitution of India is filed for cancellation of the EAMCET -- 96 (Engineering, Agriculture and Medicine Common Entrance Test -- 1996) as a public interest litigation and entertained by the Court on 14-6-1996. Petitioners moved the Court before the publication of the results alleging that there was leakage of EAMCET--96 Engineering question papers at various centres before the said examination was conducted on 22-5-1996. A coaching centre in Rayalaseema at Tirupathi (the third respondent) allegedly conducted six grand tests between 16th to 20/05/1996 and 116 questions out of 200 questions which were given to the candidates in the EAMCET-96 Engineering paper with the key-answers were found to have been given to the students of the third respondent coaching centre in the said six tests. Several candidates who appeared for EAMCET-96 sent written complaints and Newspapers published about the leakage. Petitioners stated in some details how the questions were the same or similar as were given to the students in the tests conducted by the third respondent coaching centre and stated that it was reliabl

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