Ashutosh Kumar, J. – Heard Mr. Siyaram Sahi, learned Advocate for the appellant, Ms. Binita Singh for the Bihar School Examination Board and Mr. Santosh Pandey for the Principal.

2. The appellant had appeared and passed the Class 12th Examination held in the year 2000. At that time, the examining body was the Bihar Intermediate Education Council, Patna. The Bihar School Examination Board is the successor of the afore-noted council. The appellant had approached this Court after about 17 years of his claim of having passed the Intermediate examination for a direction to the Board to issue a pass certificate in the Intermediate examination vide CWJC No. 9709 of 2017.

3. The writ petition was entertained in that instance and by judgment dated 07.12.2017, it was directed that in case of a suitable representation is filed by the appellant before the Board, the Board shall examine the matter and if it is found that he had passed the 12th examination in the year 2000, original certificate shall be issued to him within two months from the date of receipt/production of a copy of this order.

4. Armed with this order passed by the learned Single Judge, the appellant approached the Board for the needful but he was not granted certificate on the plea that according to the records available with the Board, the appellant had failed in non-Rashtrabhasha and therefore, he cannot be declared as passed and consequently no certificate can be issued to him.

5. The aforenoted decision of the Board was again challenged by the appellant in CWJC No. 17770 of 2018, which has been disposed of on 16.08.2019 and which has been impugned in the present appeal.

6. It appears from the order that the learned Single Judge had examined and verified the general tabulation register and the reserved tabulation register lying with the Board. Thereafter, the Court did not find any discrepancy in the same and did not therefore accede to the request of the appellant.

7. In appeal, Mr. Shahi contended that he is in possession of three documents of unimpeachable character viz. the Provisional Certificate, the Marksheet and the Admit Card. In all the three documents, there is no reference of the appellant having elected non-Rashtrabhasha as a compulsory subject. Surprisingly, in all the documents named above, it is shown that the appellant had chosen Hindi as one of the compulsory subjects and in the provisional result which was issued, he was shown to have passed the examination.

8. We, for our satisfaction, again called for both the registers and found that in both the registers, against the name of the appellant, it is shown that he had elected non-Rashtrabhasha in which he had obtained only four marks and therefore he could not have passed.

9. Ms. Binita Singh, however, states that prima facie there is no reason for her to doubt the genuineness of the documents furnished by the appellant, but in the absence of any other corresponding record and the only record available with the Board being the tabulation register and the reserved tabulation register, there is no way in which the request of the appellant could have been acceded to by the Board in issuing any pass certificate of Intermediate, the examination having been held in the year 2000.

10. For the satisfaction of the parties, we have again examined and verified both the registers as also the documents furnished by the appellant. As a matter of caution, we also got impleaded the Principal of the School from where the appellant had passed the examination. The reason for impleading him was that according to the appellant, there was a general practice of one copy of such register to be forwarded to the Principal of the School.

11. Mr. Santosh Pandey, learned Advocate appearing for the Principal of the School has also furnished a forwarding letter and the mark-sheet which shows that the appellant had chosen Hindi/RBH (Rashtrabhasha) in which he has obtained 39 marks out of 50 and has been shown to have passed.

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