JUDGMENT :

[WP (C) Nos. 7202/2022, 7684/2022, 26364/2021]

1. All these writ petitions are filed by the petitioners raising a dispute with regard to the management of an Aided school namely, “I.T.K. Higher Secondary School” at Cherukulamba, Malappuram District. The petitioners are the legal heirs of erstwhile manager. (For convenience, WP(C) No.7202/2022 is taken as the leading case, and the Exhibits, as well as the parties to the litigation, are hereinafter referred to as per the sequences/ranks mentioned in the said writ petition, unless otherwise specifically mentioned).

2. The facts that led to the filing of these writ petitions are as follows:

The school referred to above was established by late Sri K.V.K. Pookoya Thangal. He was the Manager and the school was thus under an individual education agency. The said Pookoya Thangal died on 23.4.2014. The petitioner in WP(C) No.7202/2022 is the son of the deceased and the petitioner in WP(C)No.26364/2021 and WP(C)No.7684/2022 is another son. Other legal heirs of the deceased are, the 5^th respondent, the wife of the deceased and respondents 7 to 10, the daughters of the deceased. The 6^th respondent in WP(C)No.7202/2022 is the petitioner i