R.JAYASIMHA BABU, J.

The common petitioner in these writ petitions--the Madras Medical Mission (MMM) whose membership is confined to Orthodox Syrian Christians--was registered 12.01.1982 as a Society under the Tamil Nadu Societies Registration Act, 1975 (Tamil Nadu Act 27/1975). It's President is Bishop of that Church at Chennai. It presently has 135 members. The objects of the Society are primarily to establish hospitals, conduct research studies in medicine and run educational institutions including medical colleges.

2. MMM owns and runs a well known super speciality hospital: Institute of Cardio Vascular Diseases (ICVD), which was established in the year 1987, as also the Institute for Reproductive Medicine and Women's Health (IRM) and a Transplant Center at Chennai. The assets at Chennai are valued at about Rs.55 Crores. It has recently established at Pondicherry, the Pondicherry Institute of Medical Science (PIMS), which comprises of a 300 bed hospital and a medical college with an annual intake of hundred students. The hospital at Pondicherry commenced functioning in mid 2001 and the college admitted it's first batch of students in 2003. The estimated cost of the P