In Rebecca Bardhan vs. The State of Bihar through the Additional Chief Secretary Cum Principal Secretary, Department of Education, Government of Bihar, Patna & Ors. (2025), Justice Partha Sarthi of Patna High Court delivered a 8-page long judgment dated September 22, 2025, wherein, he directed the Bihar School Examination Board (Senior Secondary Section) through its Secretary, the respondent no.3 "to make appropriate corrections in their internal records as per the certificates/documents enclosed by the petitioner in the instant writ application and also communicate the same to the Delhi Medical Council" through its Registrar, the respondent no.4 "within a period of three months."
The petitioner had filed the application for issuance of a Writ in the nature of Mandamus or any other appropriate Writ, Order/s, Direction/s commanding the Respondent No. 3 to correct its internal records regarding the marks obtained by the Petitioner in the Intermediate Examination held in the year 2001 by the then Bihar Intermediate Education Council (now Bihar School Examination Board (Senior Secondary) after merger in the year 2007) having Registration Number-35648/1999, Roll Number -10048, Roll Code-1168 appeared at SRP College Balkishunganj, Patna examination centre and further to report to the Respondent No. 4, the corrected marks as according to the marks-sheet supplied to her.
The case of the petitioner was that having cleared her All India Secondary School Examination in the year 1998 from the Central Board Secondary Education (C.B.S.E.), she took admission in Miloo Singh Inter College at Patna to pursue her studies of Intermediate. The petitioner got herself registered with the Bihar Intermediate Education Council, Patna with Registration no.35648/99. The Council subsequently merged with the Bihar School Examination Board, Patna in the year 2007. It is the case of the petitioner that she filled up her application form for appearance in the Intermediate examination in the year 2001 and was allotted Roll Code 1168 and no.10048. She appeared in the Annual Intermediate Science Examination held in February, 2001 and passed in First Division.
The senior counsel appearing for the petitioner submitted that copies of the marks statement and provisional certificate both dated 30.5.2001 and the certificate of having passed the Annual Intermediate Examination in science dated August 1, 2006, all issued by the Bihar Intermediate Education Council have been brought on record as Annexure-3 series to the petition. It is also case of the petitioner that she pursued her studies of Medical from the Medical College at Russia and qualified in the year 2007 as a Physician with specialization in General Medicine. On her return from Russia, the petitioner appeared in the screening test conducted by the National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences and passed the same. The certificate of having passed the screening test for foreign medical graduates conducted by the National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences, an autonomous body under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India has been brought on record as Annexure-5 to the writ application. It was the case of the petitioner that having passed the screening test, she applied in the Delhi Medical Council for registration and was registered provisionally. Thereafter the petitioner completed her internship successfully from Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Medical Sciences and Ram Manohar Lohiya Hospital, New Delhi. The petitioner's senior counsel submitted that in course of verification of the certificates after provisional registration in the Delhi Medical Council, the Registrar of the Council wrote to the B.S.E.B. asking them about the Intermediate examination of the petitioner. The Delhi Medical Council was informed about there being some discrepancy in the marks of the petitioner in the original records available with the B.S.E.B. It was submitted that the petitioner immediately applied to the B.S.E.B. for correction of marks in the original records of the Board and requested the Board to make correction in their original records, however, no action having been taken.
It was submitted that as per the contents of the counter affidavit, the records of the Board show that the petitioner had absented herself in the examination, however, at no stage have the respondents raised any issue with respect to the genuineness of the certificates respondent-Board be directed to correct their internal records and accordingly furnish report to the Delhi Medical Council (respondent no.4) with the corrected marks as per the marksheet supplied to her.
The petitioner's senior counsel submitted that the respondent-Board had not raised any suspicion with respect to the genuineness of any of the certificates instead as per the statement made in the counter affidavit, not being certain about the absence of the petitioner as reflected from their record, took the step to request the District Education Officer, Patna to make on spot physical verification of the college in question but found that the same was not longer in existence.
Justice Partha Sarthy concluded: ''...the petitioner not only having pursued her further studies but after having completed her medical studies in Russia, having cleared the foreign medical graduates examination in India and also having completed internship successfully from a recognized hospital in Delhi together with the respondent-Board not having raised any objection with respect to the genuineness of the copies of the certificates enclosed with the writ petition, the Court is inclined to allow the prayer made in the instant application.''
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