' CH. MUHAMMAD ARIF, J.---Leave to appeal is sought against the judgment of the Lahore High Court, dated 14-10-1997 dismissing Civil Revision No.1639-D of 1997 of the present petitioner Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Lahore, hereinafter referred to as the Board, with the result that the earlier judgment and decree of the trial Court, which was upheld by the first Appellate Court under section 96 of the Code of Civil Procedure, was maintained.
2. The only plea raised by the learned counsel appearing in support of this petition is that in terms of sections 29 and 31 of the Punjab Boards of Intermediate and Secondary Education Act (XIII of 1976) no act done, order made or proceedings taken by a Board in pursuance of the provisions of the Act could be called in question in any Court. Reliance in this behalf is placed on Muhammad Rafiq v. The Board of Intermediate and Secondary. Education and others (1983 SCM R 1024).
3. We are afraid, the precedent case is of no avail to the petitioner-Board in that the jurisdiction of the Civil Courts of plenary jurisdiction is admittedly attracted to the grant of a declaration in terms of section 42 of the Specific Relief Act (I of 1877). The precedent relates to an unfair means case against the petitioner and the observation read in conjunction with the facts of the said case takes it out of the preview of the argument being advanced by the learned counsel in support of this petition.
4. Moreover, the resolution of Issues Nos.2 and 3 came about after recording evidence and it was respectively held thereunder by all the Courts below that the date of birth of the respondent/ plaintiff was incorrectly recorded being against even the physic-chemistry of birth in the two brothers born on different dates, could not be lumped together for the purpose of determination of their dates of birth.
5. No other point was argued.
6. The petition is sans merit and is liable to be dismissed. So be it.