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J.Godwin Caleb v. The Director

2019-03-14Honourable Mrs Justice Pushpa Sathyanarayana3 pages

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS

DATED 14.03.2019

CORAM

THE HONOURABLE Mrs. JUSTICE PUSHPA SATHYANARAYANA W.P.No.7481 of 2019 and W.M.P.No.8142 of 2019 1.J.Godwin Caleb Rep. by his Natural Guardian/Mother R.Rani Rosalin 2.S.Gowtham Prakash Rep. by his Natural Guardian/Mother P.Santhi Selvarani 3.Jainam R.Jain Rep. by his Natural Guardian/Father S.Rajendra Kumar 4.M.Janthilal Rep. by his Natural Guardian/Mother Soram Devi 5.N.Praveen Kumar Rep. by his Guardian A.Rajkumar 6.S.Shriram Rep. by his Natural Guardian/Mother S.Shakila 7.E.Vimal Rep. by his Guardian Kailasam .. Petitioners Vs.

1.The Director,

2.The Director, Directorate of School Education, 3.The Joint Director, 4.Sri Sai Tuition Centre, Rep. by the Correspondent, Sheela, No.39/50, 15th West Cross Street, Mahakavi Bharathi Nagar, Viyasarpaadi, Chennai - 600 039.

.. Respondents PRAYER : Writ Petitions filed Under Article 226 of the Constitution of India praying to issue a Writ of Mandamus directing the respondents 1 and 3 to permit the petitioners to write the Language Paper-I and Language Paper-II in Hindi Language instead of Tamil Language in the SSLC examination to be conducted by the respondents 1 and 3 on 14.03.2019 and 18.03.2019 respectively as mentioned wrongly in the application made by the 4th respondent before the 1st respondent by considering the representation dated 29.01.2019.

For Petitioners : Mr.R.Jayaprakash For RR1 to 3 : Mrs.P.Kavitha Government Advocate

O R D E R

The writ petition is filed for a mandamus seeking a direction to the respondents 1 to 3 to permit the petitioners to write the Language Paper-I and Language Paper-II in Hindi Language instead of Tamil Language in the SSLC examination, which is commencing today i.e. 14.03.2019.

2. The petitioners are all private candidates and taken up coaching through the fourth respondent-private tuition centre. It is stated that only after the receipt of the Hall Ticket, they realised that the first language is mentioned as Tamil, whereas, all the petitioners had their first language only as Hindi.

3. Upon instructions, the learned Government Advocate affirmed the fact that all the petitioners had studied only

Hindi as the first language and submitted that the official respondents had changed the Hall Ticket and also the centre for examination, where the students have to appear and issued the same yesterday evening. The copies of the same are produced before this Court today. The same is recorded.

4. This Court places on record the efforts taken by Mrs.P.Kavitha, the learned Government Advocate and also the swift action taken by the respondents 1 to 3 enabling the students to appear for the examination, though they had come at the eleventh hour.

5. As the prayer of the petitioners are satisfied, the writ petition is closed. No costs. Consequently, connected miscellaneous petition is closed.

Sd/- Assistant Registrar(CS vi) //True Copy// Sub Assistant Registrar rsi To 1.The Director, 2.The Director, Directorate of School Education, 3.The Joint Director, +1 cc to Government Pleader SR.NO. 25105 +1cc to Mr. R.Jayaprakash, Advocate SR.No. 24519 W.P.No.7481 of 2019 and W.M.P.No.8142 of 2019 vd (CO) A.SK(22/04/2019)