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(4) Whether a joint petition can be maintained by several students who were not charged with using unfair means by copying answers from the answer books of each other? And (5) Whether joint petition can be maintained by several students who were charged with using unfair means in different questions and in papers of different subject?

2. Out of these two petitions, the first petition is by 19 students of Government Inter College, Rae Bareli. Though they appeared in the Intermediate Examination but their result was withheld. As a matter of fact, result of 223 students was withheld. An enquiry was held against these students for using unfair means in the examination by giving them a questionnaire and after taking their reply the decision was taken by the Board. Out of these 19 petitioners, 12 were charged with using unfair means in answering question No. 4 of Science IInd Paper while the rest were charged that their answers did not contain any intermediate steps but they arrived at correct answer. The charge against 4 petitioners viz. 3, 5, 7 and 18 was that their answer in Science IInd Papar tallied with answers of other students and that they copied from a common source. One of the petitioner was charged with using unfair means in Mathematics 1st Paper and another petitioner was charged with using unfair means in three papers. The ground of challenge in the petition is that the Board has practised discrimination and thereby violated Art. 14 of the Constitution of India. The main thrust of the argument of petitioners against the Board is that the Board has adopted double standard in deciding their cases and the action of the B6ard is illegal, discriminatory and arbitrary A number of students who were charged for the Same offence was exonerated including some of the students who were caught red-handed.