( 1. ) THE petitioner, a young man in his teens, has approached this Court for issue of a direction to the Board of Secondary Education (for brevity the Board) to take appropriate and suitable action against the person who had committed some mistakes and further to award Rs. 5 lakhs towards compensation for humiliation, mental shock and the loss sustained by the petitioner.

( 2. ) THE facts as have been exposited in the writ petition are that the petitioner was a regular student of Class XII of Pandit Lajja Shankar Jha Higher Secondary School, Jabalpur. He appeared in the Higher Secondary School Certificate Examination from the Centre No. 71012 in the months of March-April, 1999. The petitioner has narrated about the marks obtained by him in various subjects of his academic career to highlight that he is a meritorious student. The result of the examination was declared in the month of May, 1999. He was in puzzlement when he came to know that he had been declared failed in the subject of Physics as he was awarded 39 marks out of 100. In all other subjects he was awarded distinction and was placed in First Division. A copy of the mark-sheet has been brought on record as Annexu