JUDGMENT/ORDER

ALOK ARADHE, J. - The petitioners in W.P.No.20701/2022 and W.P.No.20921/2022 are minority educational institutions established and administered by the Trust. Similarly, petitioner in W.P.No.20917/2022 is an educational institution administered by the Trust. The petitioners are aggrieved by the action of the State Government in drawing up a seat matrix and in notifying the fee structure for admission to various post graduate courses for academic year 2022-23. In order to appreciate the grievance of the petitioners, few relevant facts need mention. For the facility of reference, facts from W.P.No.20701/22 are being referred to.

2. The petitioner is a private unaided linguistic minority institution, which was established and is being administered by Srinivasa Trust primarily for the benefit of members of Telugu linguistic minority community in the State of Karnataka. For the academic year 2022-23, the State Government had prepared draft terms of consensual agreement and shared it with respondent No.4, which is an association of minority professional colleges in the State of Karnataka (hereinafter referred to as 'the association' for short). The association in turn shared