Mr. Justice A.L. Bahri, President—Vide this order two appeals being F.A. No. 61/96 and F.A. No. 215 of 1996 are for disposal. Both these appeals have been filed by the Board of Secondary Education, Madhya Pradesh Bhopal and the respondent is Navneet Kumar, the complainant. Appeal No. 61 of 1996 has been filed against the order of the District Forum dated 9.1.96 whereby the application filed by the Board for setting aside the ex parte order was dismissed. Appeal No. 215/96 has been filed by the Board against order dated August 1,1995 whereby the District Forum granted relief to the complainant directing the appellant-board to pay sum of Rs. 10,000/- as damages and a sum of Rs. 1,000/- as costs.

2. Navneet Kumar filed the complaint before the District Forum against the Board as well as the Principal Government Boys Higher Secondary School, Bairagarh, Bhopal. Earlier Navneet Kumar appeared in 10+2 examination conducted by the Board but failed. He applied for re-evaluation/re-counting of the marks. Finding no response, he approached the High Court of Madhya Pradesh at Jabalpur in 1992. The writ petition was ultimately dismissed. Subsequently, he submitted an application for appeari