JUDGMENT

N. Kotiswar Singh, J. - ''All is not well'' in Jnanadabhiram Borooah Law College it seems. Unlike Shakespearean Hamlet who doubted ''some foul play'', there seems to be something really amiss in the affairs of Jnanadibhiram Barooah Law College and the manner in which the State Government has acted, as would be revealed in this petition.

2. The present writ petitions dealing with the State intervention in the affairs of a law college which would have been passed off as a routine dispute before this Court, however, have spawned certain issues of seminal importance.

3. The important question which arises for consideration in these petitions is the scope and extent of the power of the State Government to interfere with the management of a private law college which does not receive substantial financial assistance from the State Government and thus, is not financially dependent upon the State Government for its proper functioning.

The college in question is Jnanadabhiram Barooah Law College. The alleged mismanagement by its Governing Body was under an interventionist scrutiny of the State Government, which State action is under examination of this Court in turn.

4. This perhaps