JUDGMENT :

Kalyan Rai Surana, J.

1. Heard Mr. R.P. Kakoti, Mr. U.K. Nair, Senior Advocates, Mr. N. Dhar, Mr. A.K. Purkayastha, Mr. P. Kataki, Mr. K. Bhuyan, Mr. R. Dubey, Mr. A.R. Bhuyan, Mr. B.P. Borah, Ms. R. Begum, Mr. A. Ali, Advocates, Mr. J. Abedin (S.C., Secondary Education Department), Mr. I. Alam (S.C., NETE), for the appearing parties in this batch of 28 writ petitions.

2. The nature of the challenge in these writ petitions:

a). For the sake of convenience, the writ petitions are segregated under four categories.

(b). The petitioners in one set of writ petition, being W.P.(C) No. 5265/2014 claim that they are the Managing Committee of the concerned Madrassa and they have challenged the notification No. RMSA/TET/Madrassa/342/2014/1 dated 30.08.2014, by which the Secondary Education Department has imposed a condition that the Madrassa should select teachers (by various designations/posts called) from amongst eligible candidates who have cleared "Teacher Eligibility Test" (TET for short) examination on the ground that it infringes the right of the Managing Committee protected