JUDGMENT

B.R. Gavai, J.

Leave granted in all the Special Leave Petitions.

2. The present appeals challenge the following:

(i) judgment dated 21st December 2020 passed by the Division Bench of the High Court of Karnataka in Writ Appeal Nos. 541 of 2020 (EDN-REG) and 542 of 2020 (EDN-REG), thereby dismissing the writ appeals filed by the present appellant-Central Council for Indian Medicine, which was in turn filed, challenging the order dated 24th September 2020 passed by the learned Single Judge in Writ Petition No. 50772 of 2018 (EDN-REG-P), thereby allowing the writ petition filed by the respondent No.1 herein-Karnataka Ayurveda Medical College; and

(ii) judgment dated 24th September 2020 passed by the learned Single Judge of the High Court of Karnataka in Writ Petition Nos. 50828 of 2018 (EDN-EX) thereby allowing the writ petition filed by the petitioner therein and Writ Petition No. 50772 of 2018 (EDN-REG-P), thereby allowing the writ petition filed by the respondent No.1 herein-Karnataka Ayurveda Medical College.

3. For the sake of convenience, we refer to the facts as are found in civil appeal arising out of SLP(C) No.4618 of 2021.

4. The respondent No. 1 herein had applied to th