( 1 ) THE appellant, who is a girl-student, applied to the Hooghly Mohsin College for admission in the 3rd Year class with Honours in Economics and her application being finally refused, she moved this Court for the issue of certain writs in order to the enforcement of what she claimed to be her fundamental right of being considered for admission to the College. Her case is that the refusal of her application was based solely on the ground of her sex and thus a contravention of Article 15 (1) of the Constitution and that it was also mala fide. The way in which she has been dealt with by the Education Department is that while being refused admission to the Mohsin College, she, like other eligible girl-students, has been offered facilities for attending the Honours classes in that institution, provided she got herself admitted in (the "women's College which was recently established in the locality and which, at present, gives instruction only in the Pass courses. Bose, J. , who heard the appellant's application, held that the allegation of mala fides had not been proved; and as regards the alleged violation of Article 15 (1), he held that the alternative arran