Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education Larkana

2000 PLD 154 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH Judicial Precedent

Vol. III, R. 22Constitution of Pakistan (1973), Art.199Constitutional petitionDetection of mistake in result at a later stageRectificationRevising of resultIssuance of notification for such revision of result without affording opportunity of being heard to the candidatesValidity

Education Board, in view of its authority under Vol. III, R.22 of Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Larkana issued such notification in respect of candidates to deposit their marks/pass certificates issued to them and to receive fresh certificates

Validity

Where such notification was issued after full-fledged inquiry, nothing was wrong in that notification

Education Board had the jurisdiction to rectify the mistake detected at later stage

Where at the time of enquiry proceedings it was not known to the Authorities that as to who were those candidates, . w(to were involved in committing forgery in the record of the Board,- the question of affording opportunity of being heard to the candidates, before the enquiry proceedings were initiated, would not arise at all

After issuance of such notification, show-cause notices were issued to the candidates to explain their position but stone of them seriously contested the findings of such enquiry report and merely relied upon the technicalities

High Court, after having seen the original registers, was of the opinion that forgery was committed and interpolations were made therein

Enquiry Committee had, thus, rightly noted that rubbing, cutting and overwriting were common features in the ledgers, tampering with documents was done with the connivance of the staff of the Board

Where any right emanated from forgery. fraud and misrepresentation, such was not a legal right

Constitutional petition was dismissed in limine in circumstances.