1. In this application under Articles 226 and 227 of the Constitution of India the petitioner, through its Secretary, is Zakia Afaque Islamia College, Siwan, in the district of Siwan, which has prayed for the issuance of a writ in the nature of mandamus directing respondent No.2, namely, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bihar Muzaffarpur, to affiliate the petitioner College in the Faculty of Education and/or any other writ/direction to issue to the respondents for an appropriate relief in this regard so as to permit the students of the petitioner-College to take their Bachelor of Education examination of the Bihar University for the session 1980-81 and/or any other relief which the petitioner may be entitled, to on the facts and in the circumstances of the case.

2. Although, the hearing of the case has been protracted rather long, on account of the tenacity of the learned counsel for the University, the broad facts relevant for the disposal of this application are more or less admitted. It is worthwhile to mention here that initially at the time when interim relief was sought a counter-affidavit was filed on behalf of the University (for all practical purposes the V