By the Court.—Heard Mr. Ashok Khare, Senior Advocate assisted by Mr. P.N. Ojha appearing for the appellant, Mr. Girish Chandra Upadhyay, Standing Counsel for the State appearing for respondents No. 1, 3 and 4 and Mr. R.P. Dubey appearing for respondent No. 2. Mr. Sanjay Kumar appears for respondent No. 5. All respondents are served.

2. The appeal was admitted by an order passed by a Division Bench, in which one of us (Hon. H.L. Gokhale, C.J.) was a party, on 1.11.2007. With the consent of the Counsel appearing for the respondents the appeal is taken up for final hearing and is being disposed of.

3. This appeal arises out of writ petition No. 9456 of 2007 filed by the respondent No. 5 herein, one Puran Lal Sonkar, father of one Km. Sunaina Devi. The prayer in the petition was to direct the State of U.P. and the Additional Secretary, Madhyamik Shiksha Parishad to consider the request of the petitioner for providing examination centre at Mahatma Joti Rao Phule Vidya Ashram Higher Secondary School, Karadham, district Kaushambi, where the daughter of respondent No. 4 was studying. The petition was filed on 19th February, 2007 and the examination was to be held in March, 2007. Inas