V.Ramaswami, J.

1. In this case the petitioners have obtained a rule from the High Court asking the respondents to show cause why a writ in the nature of mandamus under Article 226 of the Constitution should not be issued commanding the respondents not to give effect to the orders contained in Annexures A and A1, dated the 23rd March, 1957, and also not to withhold the grants-in-aid to the Dayanand Kanya Vidyalaya located at Mithapur.

2. Cause has been shown by the Advocate-General on behalf of the State of Bihar and other respondents to whom notice of the rule was ordered to be given.

3. Petitioner No. 1 is the Arya Pratinidhi Sabha, a registered organisation of persons professing the Arya Samaj faith. Petitioner No. 2 is the Vice President of the Sabha, and petitioner No. 3 is the President of the Mithapur branch of the Sabha. It is alleged fay the petitionars that the Arya Pratinidhi Sabha has established several schools at Patna, including a school for boys and another for girls at Mithapur. These schools are administered and managed by persons of the Arya Samaj faith, and Sri Brajnandan Singh, who was the President of the Arya Pratinidhi Sabha, was also the President o