( 1 ) IN this writ application 10 students, through their respective guardians, studying in Higher Secondary Science Course, at the material time, have challenged certain action of the Principal, Midnapore College i. e. respondent No. 2 when admission of these students in the said college in Class XI, Science Group, for Session 1987-88 was found irregular and when the Secretary (Examination) West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education referred to consider a representation of the students and that of college to regularise their admission.

( 2 ) ON 22nd September, 1988, this court passed an interim order prohibiting and restraining respondents concerned from changing and/or for directing the petitioners to give option for changing science groups to arts groups in the Class XII final examination. Before considering claim of the petitioners, facts, transpire from the affidavit in opposition filed by the Principal, Midnapore College, i. e. respondent No. 2, are worth mentioning.

( 3 ) ON 2nd July, 1988, affairs of 17 students, as regards admission in the Higher Secondary Science Course, were detected inasmuch as those students did not obtain the prescribed m