Navaniti Prasad Singh, J.

1. This batch of writ petitions were filed challenging the validity of the Kerala Medical Education (Regulation and Control of Admission to Private Medical Educational Institutions) Ordinances (the 'Ordinances', for short) being successive Ordinance Nos. 6, 7 and 14 of 2017 as well as the provisional fixation of admission fee for all such colleges at Rs.5,00,000/- by the Admission and Fee Regulatory Committee constituted thereunder followed by challenge to the validity of the Kerala Medical Education (Regulation and Control of Admission to Private Medical Educational Institutions) Act, 2017 being Kerala Act 15 of 2017 (the 2017 Act', for short) enacted to replace a series of the Ordinances aforesaid.

2. We have heard learned Senior Counsel Sri. Sunil Gupta, who led the arguments on behalf of the writ petitioners in respect of the institutions, as also learned Senior Counsel Sri. Kurian George Kannanthanam and Sri. K. P. Dandapani, learned counsel Sri. George Poonthottam, Sri. Babu Karukappadath, Sri. George Jacob, Sri. K. M. Firoz, Sri. P. Sanjay, Sri. R. T. Pradeep and Sri. Baby Thomas. We have also heard learned counsel Sri. Santhosh Mathew, who