IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) TUESDAY, THE SEVENTEENTH DAY OF JUNE TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE V.ESWARAIAH WRIT PETITION No: 8963 of 2005 BETWEEN: Jale Ayyavaru Chetty, S/o. Late Lakshminarasaiah, R/o. 4/631-2, Old Bus Stand, Opp: NGO Home, Kadapa. ... PETITIONER AND 1 The Controller of Examinations, Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati, Chittoor District. 2 Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati Chittoor District, rep by its Registrar. ...RESPONDENTS Petition under Article 226 of the constitution of India praying that in the circumstances stated in the Affidavit filed herein the High Court may be pleased to issue a writ of mandamus or any other appropriate writ or direction declaring the action of the respondents in not sending the Economics II paper of 2nd year B.A.L. Examinations held in July 2004 baring Hall ticket No. 3975005 in respect of the petitioner for revaluation as illegal arbitrary and consequently direct the respondents to award the marks for all the questions answered and pass such other or further orders as the Hon'ble Court feels deem fit and proper in the facts and circumstances of the case. Counsel for the Petitioner: MRS.K.LALITHA Counsel for the Respondents: MR.M.SREERAMULU REDDY The Court made the following: ORDER: Petitioner submits that at the age of 58 years he joined 5 years Bachelor of Law course in Sri P. Basi Reddy College of Law, Kadapa for the academic year 1996-2001. He appeared for the examinations during December 2003 and July 2004 and results were declared stating that he failed in two subjects i.e. (i) Environmental Law of 4th year and (ii) Economics II of 2nd year. 2. The petitioner applied for personal identification, re-totaling and revaluation and he was called to identify the papers on 04.01.2005. Insofar as Environmental Law of 4th year is concerned, no marks was awarded for two questions and insofar as Economics II of 2nd year is concerned, less marks was awarded to question No.19. The said papers were revalued and 41 marks were awarded for Environmental Law and there was no change in marks awarded to the petitioner earlier in Economics II – the original marks being 31. Though in the revaluation of Economics II, one examiner awarded 21 marks and another examiner awarded 22 marks, the original marks of 31 was not at all changed. 3. It is the case of the petitioner that the revaluation of Economics II of 2nd year was not properly done and therefore, he seeks a Writ of Mandamus to direct the respondents to revaluate the Economics II paper of 2nd year again in respect of the examination held in July 2004. 4. I am of the opinion that there is no justification on the part of the petitioner in seeking revaluation of the said paper as revaluation was already done and two examiners have revaluated the paper and awarded 21 and 22 marks separately, the average of which is 21 marks only. Therefore, I do not see any merits in the writ petition. The writ petition is accordingly dismissed. There shall be no order as to costs. ______________ V. ESWARAIAH, J June 17, 2008 DSK