Cyriac Joseph ( 1 ) THE petitioner filed this writ petition for a direction to respondents, namely, the Central Board of Secondary Education and the Principal, Happy School, Padam Chand Marg, Daryaganj, New Delhi to allow the petitioner to appear in Class XII examination which commenced on 2nd March, 1996. Since admit card had been denied to the petitioner on the ground of shortage of attendance, the petitioner also prayed for a direction to respondent No. 1, CBSE to condone the shortage of attendance and to issue admit card. The stand taken by respondent No. 1 in the counter affidavit is that the petitioner had only less than 60 per cent attendance, that the maximum condonation permissible is upto 15 per cent and that even if the full benefit of condonation is given, the petitioner cannot satisfy the requirement of attendance. ( 2 ) ADMITTEDLY, the second respondent had written a letter dated 23rd February, 1996 to respondent No. 1 informing that the school had conducted extra classes of two hours duration each beyond the normal school hours, on all working days during October-December, 1995 and that the petitioner had attended those extra classes regularly. Taking into account the attendance of the petitioner in the extra classes, the second respondent further stated in the said letter dated 23rd February, 1996 that the petitioner had secured 60 percent attendance. The second respondent had also requested respondent No. 1 to issue admit card to the petitioner taking a sympathetic view, if the attendance in the extra classes also was taken into account and if respondent No. 1 extended the full benefit of condonation permissible under the Rules, the petitioner would have been eligible to appear in.