1. The prayer is for a mandamus to the respondents herein to produce the answer paper 6L.C. “Instrumentation system” with Registration No.8707336 of April, 2000 Examination of Engineering Course for verification as to whether all the answers were valued and correctly totalled and order evaluation of unvalued answers and award marks.

2. The case of the petitioner is as follows:

The petitioner is a student of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (EEE) in Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, having joined the course in the year 1997. He has been rated as one of the best students in the College. He has secured 83.8% in the first year, 87% in the III semester, 80.75% in the IV semester and 83% in the V semester. In the VI semester, he wrote six papers and he wrote them well. But when he received the mark-sheet, he found to his shock that he had been awarded only 30% marks in Instrumentation System. He had answered all the questions and the answers which he had given in the answer book would entitle him to secure more than 80%. He approached the College Authority through his father and sought an audience with the Principal. He also gave an application for rescrutiny. The