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Natural justice-Educational institutions-Student allowed by Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education to sit for examina tion-Student declared successful but result subsequently sought (without show-cause notice) to be cancelled on ground that he hail failed to attend requisite number of lectures-Mere fact of such notice not being prescribed in Rules, held, does not preclude necessity of following principles of natural justice-Action of Board, held, against all canons of justice. Date of hearing :-3rd December 1971.                                                                                                                     JUDGMENT SALAHUDDIN AHMED, J: This leave petition is directed against an order of the Controller of Examinations, Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Lahore, quashing the result of the respondent's annual Intermediate Examination held in 1965. It appears that the said respondent had sat for tile examination and passed in all the papers except Geography in which he was placed in compartment. A provisional certificate; was issued by the Principal of the Government Intermediate College for Boys, Wahdat Road, wherefrom the respondent sat for the Examination in which it was stated that the respondent lia6 been placed in compartment in Geography in his Annual Intermediate examination held in 1965. On the basis of this certificate the respondent obtained admission in the 3rd Year Class in Islamic College, Civil Lines, Lahore. He applied for permission to sit for the Supplementary Examination in Geograpy and he was allotted Roll No. 2074 by the petitioner. Accordingly the respondent No. 1 sat for the examination but in course of the examination he was served with the impugned order of the…