(MR.BHASKAR BHATTACHARYA)

All these Special Writ-Applications were heard analogously as the subject-matter of the dispute involved in these applications is identical.

2. The prayer of the writ-petitioners before this Court is for issue of a writ of certiorari and/or mandamus or any other appropriate writ or supervisory writ, order or direction after holding that the decision of the State-respondents to exclude and not to permit the students who have graduated with Sociology as principal subject from appearing in Teachers’ Eligibility Test (“TET”) for higher primary education in the State of Gujarat, is illegal and unconstitutional. The writ-petitioners have also prayed for granting permission to the students who have graduated with Sociology as their principal subject to appear in the TET for higher primary education in the State of Gujarat to be conducted on August 28, 2011 and for extending the date of on-line registration by a week starting from August 6, 2011.

3. The case made out by the writ-petitioners may be summarized thus:-

(a) The writ-petitioners are the students who have graduated withSociology as their principal subject at the graduation level and are desirous