JUDGMENT :

1. This batch of writ petitions involves a few important questions relating to the rights of educational institutions as also that of the students.

2. The writ petitions fall generally under two categories, the cases relating to schools and cases relating to colleges. Most of the writ petitions are instituted by the managements of the educational institutions and some by the parent teacher associations of the institutions concerned. Among the cases relating to schools, most of them relate to schools affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) and some relate to aided schools. As far as the cases relating to the schools are concerned, the grievance voiced by the petitioners concerns the disruption of the academic activities caused by organizations of students functioning outside the campus on political lines. As far as the cases relating to the colleges are concerned, the grievance voiced by the petitioners concerns the disruption caused to the academic activities by the students in the campus with the aid of organizations of students functioning on political lines in the campus as also elsewhere. It is not necessary to refer to the facts of all cases, for