D. M. CHANDRASHEKHAR, J. :- K.C. Agarwal, J., has referred to the Full Bench the following question of law:

"Whether the Committee of Management of an Intermediate College is a statutory body, and if so, whether a writ petition filed against it will be maintainable?"

2. The above question consists of two parts. The first part is whether the committee of Management of an Intermediate College is a statutory body? The second part of the question, as we understand, is that if such committee is not a statutory body, would a writ petition against it be maintainable. If such committee is a statutory body it does not admit of any doubt that a writ petition against it, is maintainable.

3. The long Preamble to the U. P. Intermediate Education Act, 1921 (hereinafter referred to as the Act), states that it (the Act) was enacted to establish a Board for regulating and supervising the system of High School and Intermediate Education in Uttar Pradesh and to prescribe the courses therefor. The Act as it originally stood, provided for regulating grant of recognition to non-Governmental High Schools and Intermediate Colleges, for prescribing courses of instruction and text-books therein, for