Judgment

SHAH, J. : The petitioners profess the Christian faith and belong to the United Church of Northern India. They are members of the Gujarat and Kathiawar Presbyterian Joint Board hereinafter called the society-which conducts in the areas which now form the State of Gujarat, forty-two primary schools and a Training College for teachers, known as the Mary Brown Memorial Training College," at Borsad, District Kaira. The teachers framed in the college are absorbed in the primary schools conducted by the society and those not so absorbed are employed by other Christian Mission Schools conducted by the United Church of Northern India. The cost of maintaining the Training College and the primary schools is met out of donations received from the Irish Presbyterian Mission, fee from scholars and grant-in-aid under the Education Code of the State Government. The primary schools and the College are conducted for the benefit of the religious denomination of the United Church of Northern India and Indian Christians generally, though admission is not denied to students belonging to other communities. The training course in the college is of the duration of two years and originally 25 stude