(Prayer: Writ Petitions filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India praying to issue Writs of Certiorarified Mandamus, to call for the records pertaining to the impugned notices No.11-TR(18) 2004-II, dated 29.05.2009 and 27.04.2009 on the file of the third respondent, quash the same and consequently, forbear the first and third respondents herein from in any manner interfering with the second respondents power of affiliation, approval of courses, regulation, supervision of the member-Institutes of the petitionersassociation.)

All the Writ Petitions relate to the power of the Director General of Shipping, Mumbai, in granting approval of courses, recognition and affiliation of the institutes offering maritime studies, regulating the intake capacity of students to Maritime Institutions, pre-sea and post-sea training, determination of the eligibility criteria, etc., vis-a-vis the power of the Indian Maritime University, Chennai. As pleadings and submissions are common, they are being disposed of by a common order.

2. According to the petitioner in W.P.Nos.10912 and 10913 of 2009, it is an Association of Maritime Training Institutes registered under Tamil Nadu Act 27