affiliation of colleges but the prosecution has not brought any document to show that any grant of affiliation to the colleges was issued by the petitioner under his signature. He further submits that issuance of incomplete admit cards under the signature of the petitioner is concerned, admittedly, the petitioner was Secretary of the Board and his Digital signature was used for issuance of admit cards and, therefore, it is obvious that the petitioner had no occasion to see each and every admit cards nor the admit card were manually signed. He further submits that so far as keeping of the answer sheets of students of Bishundev Rai College is concerned, according to the prosecution case, the aforesaid answer sheets were brought by the, then, Chairman Lalkeshwar Prasad Sinha and petitioner being Secretary of the Board, had no authority to challenge the power of chairman and, therefore, he had no option except to keep the answer sheets. He further submits that the concerned rules of Bihar School Examination Board did not contain any provision which empowers the Secretary to challenge or to question the authority and order of Chairman of the board and, therefore, even if, it assumed, that it was petitioner, who kept the answer sheets of the students, then also, he did the aforesaid act in discharge of his official duty. He further submits that so far as the 4th allegation is concerned, admittedly, co-
