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Petitioner: Miss SHAHNAZ AKHTAR VS Respondent: THE GOVERNMENT OF PUNJAB and another
Court Name: Lahore High Court Judge(s): Ahmad Saeed Awan Title: Miss SHAHNAZ AKHTAR vs THE GOVERNMENT OF PUNJAB and another Case No.: Writ Petition No, 2223 of 1995 Date of Judgment:1995-03-14 Reported As: 1995 CLC 1555 Result: Order accordingly
Judgment ORDER ' This Constitution petition has been filed seeking declaration to the effect that admission form Annexure B issued by the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Gujranwala is illegal, void, ab initio, without lawful authority, discriminatory, unreasonable and against the Constitution. 2. In response to the notice issued by this Court, the Controller of Examination alongwith learned counsel for the respondent have very frankly conceded that note written at the end of the admission form which reads as under:-- {{URDU TEXT}} is not in consonance with the Constitutional provisions and has no objection if the same is ordered to be deleted. 3. The main hurdle standing in the way of petitioner in presenting his admission form before the Board was Urdu Note aforementioned. 4. In this view of the matter and according to the mandate of Article 22 of the Constitution of Islamic Republic of Pakistan, this petition is partly accepted to the extent of deletion of note regarding instructions to the attesting authority not to attest the form of candidates whose residence is outside the radious of four miles from the institution. 5. The Controller of Examination present in Court is directed to entertain the admissions form of the petitioner and allow her to sit in the examination commencing 16th March, 1995. With this direction, this petition stands disposed of.