PASAYAT, J.

( 1 ) PETITIONER has come to this Court with a very unusual prayer. He seeks for a direction to the Board of Secondary Education, Orissa (in short, the 'board') to change his name and father's name in the records maintained by it and for correction of H. S. Certificate issued on 15-12-1991. Therein his name had been described as Susil Kumar Mallick, son of Kambisa Mallick.

( 2 ) PETITIONER's case sans unnecessary details is as follows :he is the son of one Lukar Baliar Singh who belonged to Scheduled Tribe. Foundation for such claim is the decree in a suit (T. S. No. 14 of 1995) which was filed in the court of learned Additional Civil Judge (Junior Division), Baliguda. In the said suit prayer was for a declaration that Dipti Baliar Singh was the one and the same person as Susila Kumar Mallick. In the suit, widow and one son of late Lukar Baliar Singh were impleaded as defendants along with Kambisa Mallick. It was pleaded that while he was aged about three years, he was given in adoption to Kambisa Mallick of Tiarigam. There was no deed of adoption. After adoption he was reading in Sudra Seveashram under Baliguda Police Station. Kambisa Mallick belongs to Kandha commun