Sia Saran Sinha, J.

1. Smt. Lalita Kumari has prayed, inter alia, for quashing Annexures 5 and 15 to the writ application filed under Articles 226 and 227 of the Constitution of India.

2. The facts of the case lie in a narrow compass and the point for decision is a simple one. After passing the middle school examination as a private candidate, the petitioner applied for the post of a teacher in a Government lower primary school, the minimum qualification required for the post, undisputedly, being middle school examination certificate. She was appointed to the post by the District Superintendent of Education, Patna, and she joined the post as a teacher in the lower primary school at Dubharah on 19-3-1959. She worked as a Primary School Teacher for a considerable long period till the year 1976, when by Annexure 5 which is dated 18-6-1976, a suspicion having arisen about her passing the Middle School Examination, she was noticed to appear in the office of the District Education Officer, Patna, on the date specified therein viz to produce her original School leaving Certificate. The further orders as contained in Annexure-5 was that till the final decision about the genuineness