IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE R.SUBHASH REDDY WRIT PETITION NO : 24172 of 2002 Dated 12th OCTOBER, 2006 Between J. Satyavani ………..Petitioner and The Director of School Education, Government of AP, Hyderabad and ors. …Respondents THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE R.SUBHASH REDDY WRIT PETITION NO : 24172 of 2002 ORDER: In this Writ Petition, the petitioner seeks Writ of Mandamus to declare the action of the respondents in not effecting corrections to her name and also to her father’s name in the Secondary School Certificate issued by the Board of Secondary Education, Andhra Pradesh, as illegal and arbitrary. The petitioner appeared in the SSC Examination held in March, 2002 with Hal Ticket No. 1094109 as a private candidate. It is the case of the petitioner that her correct name is ‘J.Satyavani,’ and she is the daughter of ‘J.Jaya Ramachander’. However, it is stated that in the SSC certificate issued by the respondents, the name of the petitioner is described as ‘K.Satyavani, D/o Taya Ramchander’. When the petitioner made an application for correction and is pending consideration, this Court by order dated 4-11-2002 directed the first and second respondents to consider the application of the petitioner for corrections. Though Writ Petition is of the year 2002, no counter affidavit is filed. It is submitted by the learned Government Pleader appearing for the respondents that though the father’s name of the petitioner was corrected from Taya Ramchander to Jaya Ramchander, but however, so far as the name of the petitioner is concerned, she herself described in the application as K.Satyavani, and, as such, the same was not corrected. Though, it is stated that the petitioner herself has stated her name as K.Satyavani, but her identity and surname are not in dispute and, more over, when the father’s name is corrected as requested, there is no reason for not acceding to the request of the petitioner for correcting her name. In that view of the matter, as identify and surname of the petitioner are not in dispute, and, orders were already passed correcting the father’s name of the petitioner, I dispose of the Writ Petition directing the first respondent to make necessary correction to the name of the petitioner also in the Secondary School Certificate and issue corrected copy of the certificate within a period of two months from today. Subject to the above direction, the Writ Petition is disposed of. No order as to costs. --------------------------------------- JUSTICE R. SUBHASH REDDY DATE: 12-10-2006. Msnr.