53 of 1993 whereby the Writ Petition No.
In the year 1988 Professor K.V Ramana appellant was the Vice Chancellor of the Andhra University, during which time his son K.R. Srinivas appellant sat for the final examination of Bachelor of Marine Engineering.
A companyple of years went by.
He applied to the University authorities on two different dates for revaluation of his answer books pertaining to three subjects Industrial Engineering and Management, Production Technology II Metallurgy, and Design and Machine Element Part 11.
2082 of 1991, preferred by Dr M. Premchand the first respondent under Article 226 of the Constitution, was allowed in public interest.
Allegedly as a result thereof he got a companyeted job.
2392 of 1994 seeks the limited relief of expunction of all those remarks.
He steered through the air of suspicion dismissing the writ petition.
53 of 1993 Ramana, the then Vice Chancellor of the Andhra University, the other appeal arising out of SLP C No.
A Division Bench of the High Court reversed the learned Single Judge holding that the result of the appellant had been manipulated.
The re evaluated result brought him substantially higher marks.
Leave granted in both matters.
In the meantime since procedural irregularities in the framing of the result of various candidates got to a scandal, the Government of Andhra Pradesh appointed an Enquiry Commission.
It is in the year 1991 that the respondent Dr R.M. Premchand moved the High Court in a writ petition under Article 226 of the Constitution challenging the result of the appellant only in public interest inter alia on the ground that neither the University was companypetent to reevaluate the papers number companyld such result be achieved since there were procedural irregularities as also that the result had been manipulated.
As a result K.R. Srinivas got a first division and a degree in B.E. Marine Engineering on that basis was awarded to him.
Since certain adverse remarks came to be made by the Division Bench against the father of K.R. Srinivas i.e. Professor K.V From the Judgment and Order dated 17 12 1993 of the Andhra Pradesh High Court in W.A. No.
There was a furore that the results were manipulated because of the Vice Chancellors interest in his son.
While hearing these petitions on 15 9 1994 we were inspired to have a look at the answer books as also the question papers in which results had substantially been improved.
A learned Single Judge of the High Court elaborately went into the matter.
We are refraining from giving herein the facts elaborately, for we have felt a sense of discomfort and uneasiness in which the High Courts jurisdiction in public interest was invoked at a point of time when the appellant stood companynered and cross checking became impossible by the companyrt.
The result declared disclosed that he had passed therein in second division.
K.R. Srinivas, the appellant in civil appeal arising out of SLP C No.2828 of 1994 is aggrieved against the order of a Division Bench of the Andhra Pradesh High Court dated 17 12 1993 passed in Writ Appeal No.
