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16. Learned Counsel for the petitioner vehemently contended that procedure is laid down in the Secondary School Code to carry out corrections in the original school record. Learned Counsel places reliance on Clause 26.4 of the Secondary School Code and contends that there is a power vested in the school authorities to correct the mistakes. Clause 26.4 of the Secondary School Code reads as below:

26.4 Application for change or correction of date of birth, name, surname, caste, etc. as entered in the General Register shall be entertained from or on behalf of a pupil who is attending a school. Such application shall not be entertained from or on behalf of a pupil, who has left the school, as the same amounts not only to a change in the entries in the General Register but also to a change in the School Leaving Certificate. However, for the purposes like an admission to another educational institution the School Leaving Certificate is relied upon as an evidence for name, surname, caste, date of birth, etc., and hence in bona fide cases where wrong spelling of a word or an obvious mistake of the type mentioned in Sub-rule 3 above is noticed any time after issue of the School Leaving Certificate and the same is required to be corrected so as to be consistent with the corresponding entries in the General Register of the school or those in the School Leaving Certificate issued by the previous school, such applications shall be entertained. The procedure to be followed in such cases is laid down in Appendix Six.