M. Katju

1. The petitioners appeared for the M.A./M.Sc examination in Home Science in the Banaras Hindu University held in May, 1991. There were three subjects in the M.A./M.Sc. Home Science course viz (1) Home Management (2) Foods and Nutrition, and (3) Extension Education There is an option to choose between Foods and Nutrition or Home Management. The petitioners opted for the former.

2. At the examination for Foods and Nutrition (Paper I) held on 2-5-1991 the petitioners walked out due to certain grievances, and by means of this writ petition they have prayed for a mandamus directing the University authorities to hold a re-examination in paper I (Food and Nutrition), there is also a prayer for quashing the examination of Paper III of Home Management, but I am not inclined to grant this prayer as the candidates for this paper have not been impleaded.

The principal grievance in this petition is against respondent No. 4. It is alleged in para 3, and also in several subsequent paragraphs of the petition, that respondent No 4 always acts unfairly and favours students of her subject i.e. Home Management It has always been her desire that a student of her subject tops the merit