Sachchidanand Jha, J.

1. Young doctors, seeking to improve their qualification by doing Post-graduation in the different disciplines of Medical Science, have knocked the doors of this Court complaining of the recalcitrant attitude on the part of the authorities in not granting study leave for the said purpose. Many of them had. died writ petitions being C.W.J.C. Nos. 3784, 3640, 3743 and 3479 of 1991, which were disposed of by a Bench of this Court on 23-5-1991, inter alia, with a direction to the authority concerned, namely, the Coin-missioner-cum-Principal Secretary, Department of Health, Medical Education and Family Welfare, Government of Bihar, to dispose of the applications for study leave by 30th June 1991. The said authority, pursuant to the aforesaid direction has rejected all such leave applications by his order dated 23-6-1991. Accordingly, the petitioner have also prayed for quashing of the said order, besides seeking mandamus directing the authority to grant study leave for the said purpose.

2. There are 42 petitioners in these two applications. The facts being similar and the points arising for consideration being the same, these two applications are being disp