P. A. CHOUDHARY, J.

( 1 ) THE writ petitioner was a student, who appeared for the First B. A. , and Second B. A. , examination of Sri Venkateswara University in May, 1980. On the ground that he committed malpractices in the examination he was served by the University with a show cause notice. This was on 3-9-80. These charges of malpractices mainly relate to smuggling from outside of the examination hall an additional written answer sheet and insertion of the same in the answer book. In support of that charge, the show cause notice mentioned that this extra sheet contained a peculiar physical feature of being folded four times and bearing hand-writing which was markedly different from the handwriting in the original answer book. The show cause notice alleged that the quality of the answer found on the pages of the extra sheet was wholly different from and much superior to the quality of the answer in the original sheet. This show cause notice also alleged that Question No. 2 which had been answered in the original answer book was found answered once again in the additional answer sheet without the original answer being scored off. Basing upon this the University drew the inference o

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