JUDGMENT :

Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned counsel for the Bihar School Examination Board (hereinafter referred to as the ‘Board’) as also learned counsel for the State.

2. This writ application has been filed seeking a writ in the nature of Mandamus directing the respondents to pay a monetary compensation to the tune of Rs.10 lakhs to the petitioner no. 2 whose career and further prospect of studies has been marred by two years due to a totally irresponsible conduct of the affairs of the Board in the matter of publication of her result of Secondary School Examination, 2017 (Annual).

Case of the Petitioners

3. Petitioner no. 2 was a student of BLSSP High School, Narkatiya. She appeared in the Secondary School Examination, 2017 (Annual) conducted by the Board. Her result was published showing her ‘Fail’ in the compulsory paper of Sanskrit. She had otherwise secured 1st Division Marks in total in other four subjects.

4. It is submitted that the petitioner no. 2 who was minor at the relevant time was shocked and suffered humiliation despite the fact that she did not believe that she could have failed in the Sanskrit paper. The petitioner no. 2 filed an application und