ORDER :

1. Both these petitions are filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India essentially challenging the very same action of the respondent authority and as such, upon request of learned advocates appearing for the respective parties, these petitions are taken up for hearing conjointly.

1.1 So far as Special Civil Application No. 12248 of 2020 is concerned, the same is filed by the petitioner for seeking following reliefs :

“(A) Your Lordships may be pleased to issue writ of mandamus or any other appropriate writ, order, direction declaring the action on part of the respondent No.3 in conducting Online Entrance Examination on an overlapping date with the off line examination of B. Sc. Course of the Gujarat University, as illegal, arbitrary, unconstitutional, violative of Articles 14 and 21 of the Constitution of India, null and void.

(B) Be pleased to direct respondent No.3 to conduct fresh online Entrance Examination for Group I for those candidates who were left out due to overlapping of the Examinations and thereafter only finalise the admission process to the M. Sc. Forensic Biotechnology course.

(C) Pending admission and final hearing of present petition be pleased to s