The Chief Justice.-In these two applications substantially the same questions fall to be decided and they were therefore heard together. In C.M.P. No. 5255 of 1950 the petitioner is one Srimathi Champakam Dorairajan. In the affidavit filed by her in support of the application, she states that she is a graduate of the Madras University having passed in 1934 the B.A. degree examination taking Physics and Chemistry for her subjects, that owing to financial and other difficulties she could not join forthwith or seek to join the Medical College, that she has since been able to decide on reading for a medical degree, that she made enquiries with regard to her admission into the Government Medical College at Madras in the M.B., B.S. course, that she ascertained that in respect of admissions into the said College the authorities were enforcing and observing an order of the Government referred to as the Communal Government Order, in and by which the admission into the Medical College is to be regulated not by qualification or suitableness of the candidate applying for admission, but by directions involving the making of discriminations between applicant and applicant on the ground of caste,

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