1. This is an appeal against the order passed by the learned single Judge of this Court dismissing the writ petition filed by the petitioner challenging the advertisement issued by the respondents for appointment of the post of Principals in a higher secondary school run by the fifth respondent. A short factual history would not be out of place.

2. Petitioner joined initially as a Headmistress in the Montessori School run by the 4th, 5th and 6th respondents. The 6th respondent is the Correspondent. This was way back in the year 1978. Thereafter, the said school kept on progressing so much so that ultimately the school which had started as a Montessori school became a higher secondary school. It is an admitted position that the school belongs to the minority. It so happened that the petitioner who was serving as a Headmistress right from the beginning had also acquired the qualifications of B.Ed. and M.A. during all these years, so much so that she seems to have acquired the qualification of M.Ed. also. After the school was raised to the standard of Higher Secondary School, the respondents 4 to 6 issued an advertisement on 25. 1995 inviting applications for the post of P