J.S.NARANG, J.

1. G. K. Chatrath, a Senior Advocate and who presently also happens to be President of the Punjab and Haryana High Court Bar Association and who claims to have been associated with legal Education in various capacities in Punjab University, Chandigarh as well as in other Universities, and who has been a Fellow of Punjab University for the last 32 years and has been elected as a member of the Syndicate from the Faculty of Law, and further an elected member of the Governing Body of the Indian Law Institute, New Delhi, by way of Public Interest Litigation (CWP No. 7738 of 2000) and the candidates seeking admission to Three Years Degree of Law in the Department of Laws (Evening College), Chandigarh, and who have cleared the Entrance Test and are within the admission zone (CWP Nos. 10363, 10426 and 10517 of 2000), have filed these petitions calling in question amendment to Rule 2 (1) of Section B in Part IV of the Bar Council of India Rules on legal education requiring the law colleges/departments to run only day session from the year 2000-2001 as also to quash the directions issued by the Bar Council of India vide letter dated May 26, 2000, Annexure P-2 being inv