Bihar School Examination Board vs Suresh Prasad Sinha on 4 September, 2009
"The respondent as a student is neither a
consumer nor is the appellant rendering any
service. The claim of the respondent to
award B.Ed. degree was almost in the nature
of a relief praying for a direction to the
appellant to act contrary to its own rules.
The National Commission, in our opinion,
with the utmost respect to the reasoning
given therein did not take into consideration
the aforesaid aspect of the matter and thus,
arrived at a wrong conclusion. The case
decided by this Court in Bihar School
Examination Board (supra) clearly lays
down the law in this regard with which we
find ourselves in full agreement with.
Accordingly, the entire exercise of
entertaining the complaint by the District
Forum and the award of relief which has
been approved by the National Commission
do not conform to law and we, therefore, set
aside the same."