Rakesh Kumar Jain, J.

1. This order shall dispose of four petitions bearing CWP No.25565, 25806, 25568, 25661 and 25557 of 2016 as the issues involved in all these cases are the same. However, for the sake of convenience, the facts are being extracted from CWP No.25565 of 2016.

2. In brief, petitioner no.1 is the institute and petitioners no.2 to 37 are the students of B. Tech. 1st year, B. Tech. (LEET-Lateral Entry-3rd semester), MBA and Diploma in Engineering, who have prayed for the issuance of a writ in the nature of mandamus, seeking a direction to the Haryana State Technical Education Society (hereinafter referred to as the “respondent-society”) and the Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra (hereinafter referred to as the “respondent-university”) to register the students and to permit them to appear in the examination and also to declare condition of online registration/up-dation of details of the admitted students on or before 15th of August, incorporated in the prospectus, as arbitrary. It is alleged that petitioner no.1 is a self-financed unaided engineering co