( 1 ) THE petitioners have filed this petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India seeking direction against the respondent authorities directing them to take separate interviews for minor batch of 1996 for seats equivalent to 1/3rd number of seats allotted to major batch of 1996. The petitioners have further sought directions against the respondent authorities to evolve a transparent system of interview where a candidate moves in advance and knows minute by minute the position of vacancies in various subjects. By way of an amendment to the petition, the petitioners have further sought a declaration to the effect that Rules 3. 1 and 4. 8 of the Rules governing admission to Post Graduate Degree and Diploma Medical Courses framed by the Gujarat University, the respondent No. 3 herein, as ultra vires the Article 14 of the Constitution of India.

( 2 ) THE brief facts, giving rise to the present petition, are that the petitioners are students of old course of MBBS and they have passed their HSC Examination in the month of June 1996. Due to various litigations pending in this Court, in respect of conflict between premedical students and standard 12th students and