JUDGMENT :

ANIL K. NARENDRAN, J.

1. The appellants, who are respondents 1 and 2 in W.P.(C)No.32178 of 2025, have filed this writ appeal, invoking the provisions under Section 5(i) of the KERALA HIGH COURT ACT , 1958, challenging the interim order dated 27.08.2025 of the learned Single Judge in that writ petition.

2. W.P.(C)No.32178 of 2025 is one filed by the petitioners (respondents 1 and 2 herein), namely, V.N. Public Health and Educational Trust and its Managing Trustee, seeking a writ of certiorari to quash Ext.P1 order dated 22.08.2025 of the 2^nd respondent National Medical Commission (1^st appellant herein), in the appeal filed by Palakkad Institute of Medical Sciences, Walayar, under Section 22 (3) of the National Medical Commission Act, 2019, read with Section 9 of the Maintenance of Standards of Medical Education Regulations, 2023, and Ext.P13 order dated 14.07.2025 of the 1^st respondent Under Graduate Medical Education Board (1^st appellant herein), whereby the Board decided to reduce 50 seats in Palakkad Institute of Medical Sciences, and granted conditional renewal of only 100 MBBS seats, for the academic session 2025-26; a declaration that for the institutions granted Let