ISSUE:
Whether by the administrative discretion given to the Director there is a duty casted by law?
Whether the discretionary power under the rule can be controlled by self-created rules of Policy?
RULE:
Rule 127E of the Travancore Education Code provided that no English School Leaving Certificate would be granted to any person unless he has been a pupil on the rolls of Form VI of a recognised English High School during the whole school year in which he had applied for a certificate. Moreover, he should have completed fifteen years of age on or before the first day of July of the year in which he had applied for the certificate.
