SOMNATH AYYAR, J.

( 1 ) THE petitioner was an assistant teacher working in the Primary Boy's School, Kanakapura, at the relevant time. He had by then put in ten years of service. In the year 1959 he made an application for admission to the Mysore Secondary School Leaving Certificate public examination and that application was presented to the Inspector of Schools. He was issued a hall-ticket and he was declared as having passed the examination.

( 2 ) ON 6 March, 1960, he was however asked to surrender the marks card, and, he was informed that since he had not passed the middle school examination or an equivalent examination he could not have sat for the S. S. L. C. Examination. Nothing was done about it for some considerable time. But on 17 October, 1961 the District Educational officer called upon him to show cause against three charges which he formulated. The first of them was that although the petitioner knew that he did not possess the required qualification to appear as a teacher-candidate for the S. S. L. C. examination, he nevertheless applied for permission to attend it. The second charge was that he misrepresented facts to the Inspector of Schools and persuaded him to f

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