The writ petitioner, the Bishop of Kanyakumari Diocese, C.S.I. (Church of South India), has filed these writ petitions challenging the clause in the approval process for Diploma Institutions issued by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), New Delhi, stipulating that the application for establishment of new technical institutions can be made by a registered Societies and trusts, so far as it relates to the petitioner institutions which are religious minority institutions having protection under the Constitution of India, and also the order passed by the Director of Technical Education, Chennai-25 dated 8. 2009 by which the said second respondent rejected the claim of the petitioner to start a new polytechnic college as per the application dated 6. 2009 on the basis that the Church of South India Trust Association has been incorporated under the Indian Companies Act, 1913, as a Limited Company on 29. 1947, but as per AICTE approval process, the applicant should be either a Registered Society or a Trust or Central/State Government institution or Government Aided institution.

2. It is stated that C.S.I. Trust Association was registered as a company under sec