ORDER :

Heard Sri.Udaya Holla, learned Senior counsel along with Sri. Shashidhara H. N., learned counsel for the petitioners in the lead petition – W.P.No.13414/2020, Sri. P. S. Rajagopal, learned Senior counsel along with Smt. Ashwini Rajagopal, learned counsel for the petitioners in the companion petition W.P.No.12650/2020, Sri. Jayanth Dev Kumar, learned counsel for the petitioner in W.P.No.12652/2020, Sri. D.N. Nanjunda Reddy, learned Senior Counsel along with Sri. N. K. Ramesh, learned counsel for the respondent – University and Smt.Prathima Honnapura, learned Additional Government Advocate for the respondent – State. The Pleadings have been completed.

2. The petitioners in W.P.No.13414/2020 and W.P.No.12652/2020 are the members of the Syndicate body of the University constituted under Section 24 of the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences Act, 1994 (hereinafter referred to as the ‘Act-1994’ for short) and the petitioners in W.P.No.12650/2020 are the members of the Senate body constituted under Section 21 of the Act-1994. The petitioners in W.P.No.13414/2020 and W.P.No.12652/2020 came to be removed from the membership of the Syndicate, by a common order produced as Annexur