IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL Writ Petition No. 992 of 2008 (M/S) Sachin Kumar Sharma (minor) through his guardian Sri Anil Kumar Sharma, S/O Sri Ram Chnadra Sharma, R/O Village Tanda, Jwalapur, Tehsil Laksar, District Haridwar. …… Petitioner. Versus State of Uttarakhand through Principal Secretary, School Education, Civil Secretariat, Dehradun and another. … Respondents. Sri Ajay Veer Pundir, learned counsel for the petitioner. Sri K.P. Upadhyay, learned Addl. C.S.C. for the respondent No.1-State. Sri V.K.Bist, Senior Advocate, with Ms. Sangeeta Miyan, learned counsel for the Board-respondent no.2 Date June 18, 2008. Hon’ble B.S. Verma, J. Sri Ajay Veer Pundir, learned counsel for the petitioner, Sri K.P.Upadhyaya, learned Additional Chief Standing Counsel for the State-respondent no.1 and Sri V.K.Bist, Senior Advocate, with Ms. Sangeeta Miyan, learned counsel for the respondent no.2. The only prayer made in this writ petition is that the respondent no. 2 be directed to declare the result of scrutiny of the petitioner expeditiously. Accordingly to the petitioner, he appeared in the High School Examination 2008 conducted by respondent no.2 as a regular student from National Kanya Inter College Khanpur, Haridwar. The result of the High School Examination was declared and in the mark-sheet issued to the petitioner, he was shown to be unsuccessful in the subject of Social Science and the petitioner was shown failed. The petitioner has already applied for scrutiny of the marks in the aforesaid subject. In the course of arguments, learned counsel for the petitioner has urged that the ends of justice would be subserved if a direction is issued to the respondent no. 2 to declare the result of the scrutiny applied for by the petitioner within a time frame. In the circumstances of the case, the respondent no. 2 is directed to declare the result of the scrutiny applied for by the petitioner expeditiously as far as possible preferably within a period of four weeks from the date of production of certified copy of this order. With the above direction, the writ petition is disposed of finally. All pending applications stand disposed of. (B.S.Verma, J.) RCP 2