IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) TUESDAY, THE SEVENTEENTH DAY OF FEBRUARY TWO THOUSAND AND NINE PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE N.V. RAMANA WRIT PETITION NO : 2297 of 2009 Between: Mohd.Ajaz, S/o. Mohd. Ismail, R/o.H.No.8-2-613/110, G.S.Nagar, Road No.10, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad. ..... PETITIONER AND 1 The Secretary, Board of Secondary Education, Nampally, Hyderabad. 2 The Additional Joint Secretary, to the Director of Government Exams, Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad. 3 The Posnett High School Rep by its, Head Mistress, Ameerpet, Hyderabad. .....RESPONDENTS Petition under Article 226 of the constitution of India praying that in the circumstances stated in the Affidavit filed herein the High Court will be pleased to issue Writ Order or Direction more particularly one in the nature of Writ of Mandamus, declaring the impugned proceedings of the 2nd respondent vide Rc.No.SPL/D3/Supdt./2008 dt. Nil as illegal, arbitrary and unconstitutional and consequentially direct the respondents herein to correct the name of the petitioner as Mohd.Ajaz and Petitioners father name as Mohd. Ismail in the SSC certificate bearing No.P.C./03/0005338/8. Counsel for the Petitioner: MR.B.CHANDRA SHEKHAR Counsel for the Respondents: GP FOR SCHOOL EDUCATION The Court made the following : ORDER: Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Government Pleader for School Education and at their request the writ petition is taken up for final disposal at the admission stage itself. This writ petition is filed by the petitioner questioning the proceedings of the 2nd respondent in Rc.No/SPL/D3/Supdt/2008 dated Nil rejecting the request of the petitioner to make necessary corrections in the SSC certificate in regard to his father’s name. When the matter came up, the learned Government Pleader has produced before the Court G.O.Ms.No.1263, Education Department dated 6.5.1961. Section –C of the said G.O. reads as under. “ Rules for the correction of the entries relating to the name, surname, father’s name, caste, relation etc., in completed Secondary School leaving certificate or Higher Secondary Certificate or Higher Secondary (MP) Certificates. 1. No application shall be entertained by the government or any officer of the Education Department for the Correction of the entries relating to name, Father’s name, Caste, Religion etc., in the completed Secondary School Leaving Certificates or Higher Secondary Certificates of Higher Secondary (Multipurpose Certificates, unless it be for the correction of obviously absurb entries or clerical mistakes committed in the school office of the Education Department. 2. The person affected may, however, arrange to notify at his or her own costs, any such change of name, father’s name, caste or religion in the A.P. Gazettee and shall keep a copy of the certification in the concerned certificates. 3. No correction need, however, be made in the certificate or the school records as a result of the notification referred to in rule 2 above. A reading of the above section makes it clear that no application shall be entertained by the government or any officer of the education department for correcting the entries relating to the name of the candidate, father’s name, caste, religion, etc., unless the same are due to the mistake of the department officials. Admittedly, in the instant case, even as per the petitioner, his parents wrongly represented his name as Shaik Azaz and his father’s name as Shaik Ismail by mistake at the time of submitting the application for SSC examination due to their illiteracy. Therefore, the respondents have rightly rejected the request of the petitioner for correcting the names in the SSC certificate. However, the petitioner is at liberty to follow the procedure prescribed in the said G.O. for redressal of his grievance. With the above observation, the writ petition is disposed of. N.V.RAMANA,J DT.17.2.2009 Msv.