B.P.SINHA, J.

(1) THIS petition under Art. 32 of the Constitution is directed against certain orders passed by officers of the Bihar government in the Education Department, in respect of the Parsa High English School, and prays for an appropriate writ, direction or order restraining their from taking possession of the school, or in any way, interfering with the internal management of the said school. The first petitioner, Shri Dwarka Nath Tewari, M. P., claims to be the President of the Managing Committee of the school, the second petitioner, Shri Murlidhar Pandey, to be the secretary, and the petitioners 3 to 6, to be members of the Managing Committee of the school. The 7th and the last petitioner is the Parsa High English School through the secretary, Managing Committee. The State of Bihar is the first respondent, and the Board of Education, Bihar, is the second respondent. Respondents 3, 4 and 5 are officers of the government, who have been constituted an ,ad hoc Committee pending the constitution of the Managing Committee of the school, according to the rules laid down in the Education Code.

(2) THE application is founded on the following allegations : In 1931, in