Priyanka Kumari v. The Chairman, Bihar School Examination Board, Patna And ORS

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No.19210 of 2017 ====================================================== Priyanka Kumari minor D/o Shri Chandra Kant Jha under guardianship of her elder brother Rahul Kumar Jha, son of Shri Chandrakant Jha Resident of Village Behari, P.S. - Sikta, District - West Champaran, regular science student of Project Girls High School, Sikta, West Champaran and appeared in Matric Annual Examination of 2016 having code - 54046, Roll No. 1600091 at Matisara Kunwar Girls High School, Narkatiyaganj. ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

1. The Chairman, Bihar School Examination Board, Patna.

2. The Secretary, Bihar School Examination Board, Patna.

3. The Examination Controller, Bihar School Examination Board, Patna.

4. The Superintendent of Centre, Matisara Kunwar Girls High School, Narkatiyaganj.

5. The Headmaster of Project Girls High School, Sikta (West), District - West Champaran.

... ... Respondent/s ====================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Binay Kant Mani Tripathy Ms. Ajita For the Respondent/s :

Ms. Binita singh ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE CHAKRADHARI SHARAN SINGH ORAL ORDER 20-02-2018 It is the petitioner's grievance that she has been wrongly shown as absent in the Science subject, in the result published by the Bihar School Examination Board, for Class-X (Matriculation) Examination, 2016. It is the specific case of the petitioner that despite her repeated requests and steps for invoking provisions of Right to Information Act, her grievance have not been redressed.

Considering the nature of grievance raised on behalf of the petitioner, I deem it proper to dispose of the writ application at

Patna High Court CWJC No.19210 of 2017(2) dt.20-02-2018 2/2 this stage itself with a direction to the Secretary, Bihar School Examination Board, to consider the petitioner's grievance and after examining the relevant records, take a final decision within a period of 8 (eight) weeks from the date of receipt/production of a copy of this order.

If the Secretary, Bihar School Examination Board, comes to a conclusion that the petitioner had appeared for the examination and has wrongly been shown as absent, in the result in the said paper, he shall proceed accordingly in the direction of publication of revised result. If the findings of the Secretary, Bihar School Examination Board, is otherwise, he shall communicate the decision to the petitioner immediately thereafter.

(Chakradhari Sharan Singh, J) Prabhakar Anand/- U √