Mookerjee, J : The University of Calcutta, its Vice-Chancellor and another have preferred these two appeals against the interim orders dated 30th November 1984 passed by Bhagabati Prosad Banerjee, J. directing that Rajib Sarkar and Subrata Mukhopadhaya, who are respectively the respondent no. 1 in the said two appeals, be admitted to Master of Surgery (Orthopaedic) Course of the University of Calcutta, for the year 1984, provisionally and on ad-hoc basis. Said Rajib Sarkar and Subrata Mukhopadhayay, who were both medical graduates, had appeared at the Entrance Examination for admission to the Master of Surgery (Orthopaedic) Course, 1984. But they were not selected. Said two candidates have filed two writ petitions in this Court, inter alia, for a writ or Mandamus commanding the respondents to forbear from giving effect to the results of the said Entrance Examination and to cancel the same and for declaring that the petitioner of the respective writ petition had been selected and was eligible for admission to the said course.

2. Before considering the merits of these two appeals, we may first deal with the preliminary objection of the appellants as regards the maintainability