L. RATH, J.

( 1 ) THESE two petitions seek the identical relief of quashing of the notification by the Board of Secondary Education, Orissa cancelling the whole of the Annual High School Certificate Examination, 1987 held at the centre of Hadibandhu Ucha Vidyapitha, Cuttack as not having been conducted as per the rules of the Board and for other reliefs differently. Since both the cases are for the identical relief mainly, they are disposed of by this common judgement. O. C. J. No. 1996/87 has been filed by the students of the Nayabazar High School, Cuttack who appeared at the Annual High School Certificate Examination, 1987 at the Hadibandhu Ucha Vidyapitha Centre for the relief as aforesaid and for the additional relief of issue of a writ of mandamus directing the opposite party Board of Secondary Education, Orissa (for brevity 'the Board') to publish the results of the petitioners. In the case, the Centre Superintendent and Headmaster of Hadibandhu Ucha Vidyapitha has been impleaded as opposite party No. 2. O. J. C. No. 2038/87 has been filed by the Headmaster of Nayabazar High School, Cuttack for the relief of quashing of the notification of the Board cancelling the examinatio