Dilip B. Bhosale, J.

1. Heard. Rule. By consent of learned counsel for the parties heard forthwith.

1.1. The petitioners, in these writ petitions under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, are students of different years of five year integrated degree course in law and were due to appear for different semesters in June, 2014. By means of these petitions, they seek to challenge mandatory instructions 3 and 4 in the notification dated 08.04.2014, (for short "the Notification") issued by respondent No.1 - Karnataka State Law University (for short 'the University') for provisional registration of the examination application forms for different examinations, including five year B.A. LL.B, B.A. LL.B (Hons) examinations for regular and repeaters batch students to be held during June, 2014.

1.2 Instructions 3 and 4 in the Notification, in short, state that unless candidates, filling the examination form, fulfill minimum 70% of attendance, their application forms should not be forwarded by the college to the University. Since, the petitioners examination application forms were not forwarded by respondent No.2-M.S.Ramaiah College of Law (for short "the College") they have fi