ORDER :- The Monte de Guirim Educational Society and the Head-Master of the St. Anthonys High School which is administered by that Society come before me with this petition for Writ directing the Government and their Education Director, the first and second respondents herein, to continue the payment of the maintenance grant that was being given to the school under Grant-in-Aid Code for its maintenance and to restrain the first and second respondents from stopping the grant for the payment of salary of the staff of the school.

2. Shortly stated the case of the petitioners is as follows :-

In 1963 the Capuchin Fathers in Goa formed a Capuchin Society registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860 known as the Capuchin Friars Minor Society. Its objective was, inter alia, the establishment and maintenance of educational institutions. Accordingly the Capuchin Society established the St. Anthonys High School (hereinafter referred to as the School). In 1975 the first petitioner Society was formed also with the avowed object, among others, of taking over, conducting, developing, improving, equipping and administering the School. The petitioners seek to provide education to t