S.D.Bajaj, J.

1. Vishwajit Prabhakar son of Shri Raghunath Dass took the test in Matriculation examination held by the Punjab School Education Board in March 1985. Roll number of the candidate was 367041 and the centre of examination was in S.B.A.C. School Bajwara, tehsil and district Hoshiarpur. Ram Nath petitioner in criminal miscellaneous No. 4295-M of 1989, who is posted as P.T.I. Teacher in Government Middle School, Bichhohi, tehsil and district Hoshiarpur, was one of the Supervisors posted at the Centre.

2. Supervisor Ram Nath found the student Vishwajit Prabhakar using unfair means, while taking the matriculation examination at the Centre aforesaid and made a report of it to the Centre Superintendent Suresh Kumar and also the Punjab School Education Board at Mohali. Initially, on July. 10, 1985, the result of the candidate was not declared and it was given out by the Board in the gazette to be a case of unfair means. Raghunath Dass, father of the candidate, met the authorities concerned in the Punjab School Education Board at Mohali, who on his representation declared his son successful in the matriculation examination on December 3, 1985.

3. Both the father and son