Judgment

Pattanaik, J.-Leave granted in all the Special Leave Petitions.

2. These six appeals filed by the Central Board of Secondary Education are directed against the judgment and order of the Division Bench of the Kerala High Court dated 18.6.1997 disposing of Writ Appeal Nos. 949/97, 978/97, 285/96, 300/96 as well as the two Original Petitions filed before the Division Bench, namely, O.P. Nos. 2400/96 and 3559/96. The question that arises for consideration is : whether students studying in institutions not affiliated to the Board of Sec­ondary Education can be permitted by the High Court by an interim order to appear at the examination conducted by the Board and ulti­mately can the Board be compelled to issue certificates to those stu­dents who have appeared at the examination pursuance to the interim direction of the court notwithstanding the fact that the institutions where the students were prosecuting their study have not yet received affiliation of the Central Board of Secondary Education? Writ Appeals 949/97 and 978/97 had been preferred by the Board - Appellant, against the order of the learned single Judge dated 6.2.1997 by which order the Board was directed to allow the