ORDER :- The petitioner appeared in September 1961 for the Second B. E. (Integrated course) under the first respondent University. On 9-11-1961, the Registrar of the University sent a notice to the petitioner stating that the Chief Superintendent, University Examinations, Thyagaraja College of Engineering, Madurai, reported that he had reasons to suspect that pages 12 to 15 and 28 to 32 of the answerbook were brought from outside and inserted by him in the examination and in support of it the Chief Superintendent relied that (1) There were folds at the middle of these pages, (2) the handwriting of the petitioner showed extreme calmness and (3) some of the matter he had written in those pages were irrelevant to the questions asked in the examination. In the circumstances, the Registrar, by a notice, called upon the petitioner to submit by return of post his explanation as to why disciplinary action should not be taken against him for having violated R. 7 of the pamphlet "Instructions to the Candidates" issued to him along with the hall ticket. The petitioner received the notice on 13-11-1961 and sent his explanation on 17-11-1961. On 30-12-1961 the Syndicate Committee on di