Judgment

BHAGWATI, C.J.I. :- These appeals by special leave are directed against an Order passed by a Division Bench of the Karnataka High Court summarily rejecting writ appeals preferred by several students against a common judgment delivered by Justice Rama Jois dismissing the writ petitions filed by them challenging the cancellation of their admission by the Karnataka University. The facts giving rise to these appeals are few and may be briefly stated as follows :

R. P. Mathur, the appellant in Civil Appeal No. 10610 of 1983 passed Higher Secondary Examination conducted by the Board of Secondary Education, Rajasthan and applied for admission to the first year of the Engineering Degree Course in Shri Dharmasthala Manjunatheswara College of Engineering and Technology for the academic year 1981-82. Shri Dharmasthala Manjunatheswara College of Engineering and Technology is a private Engineering College affiliated to the Karnataka University and admission to the- first year of the Engineering Degree course in this College was, therefore, governed by the Rules for admission made by the Karnataka University. On 11th August, 1980, the Vice-Chancellor in exercise of the emergency powers. c