( 1 ) KM. Renu Tyagi, Roll No. 182691 along with 30 more students whose roll numbers have been given below their names in Writ Petition No. 20899 of 1990 (hereinafter referred to as the first petition) and Arun Kumar, Roll No. 1139851 along with 21 more students whose roll numbers have also been given below their names in Writ Petition No. 22986 of 1990 (hereinafter referred to as the second petition), have filed these petitions under Art. 226 of the Constitution of India seeking the relief for a writ of Mandamus directing the respondents to declare the result of the petitioners of the High School Examination, 1989. It has further been prayed that the respondents may be directed to allow the petitioners to appear in the Intermediate Examination, 1990-91 as they are studying in the 2nd year of the Intermediate.

( 2 ) AS the points involved for consideration in both these petitions are similar, hence it is convenient to dispose of these petitions by a common judgment.

( 3 ) IN the first writ petition the petitioners appeared from K. B. Intermediate College, Machra, Meerut and the same institution was the centre for High School Examination, 1989. All the petitioners wer