( 1 ) STUDENTS of Chaudhary Mahadeo Prasad Degree College and Allahabad Degree College (hereinafter referred to as C. M. P. and A. D. College) affiliated to Allahabad University, have filed these petitions against decision of Examination Committee cancelling examinations held on various dates in the months of April and May 1986 in these colleges as the examinees indulged in mass copying. Although various submissions touching on legality of Examination Committee, lack of material for its decision, absence of any report of copying by invigilators or centre superintendents, were advanced by crux of the matter is, if the examinations which were held for fair and honest assessment of capability of the examinees to accumulate and retain knowledge stood vitiated because it turned into a farce due to resort to unfair means adopted by the examinees. Because if this decision of Examination Committee is correct then it would not be a fit case for interference in writ jurisdiction. Stress was laid by urging that part of examination having been held to be legal the remaining could not be permitted to be declared void and illegal. Absence of any inquiry and violation of principle of natural just

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