These two petitions are being disposed of by a common judgment as the controversy involved therein is the same. The petitioners claim that they were validly admitted by the Tilakdhari Post Graduate College, Jaunpur to the B. Sc. (Agriculture) Part I course for the academic session 1982-83, but they were illegally refused by the Gorakhpur University, to which the said College was affiliated, permission to appear at the B. Sc. (Agriculture) Part I Examination, beginning from April 9, 1983. Writ Petition No. 4380 of 1983 was filed on April 7, 1983 and under an interim order of this Court, the petitioners of that petition were provisionally permitted to appear at the said examination. The petitioners of Writ Petition No. 11116 of 1983, on the other hand, appeared at the said examination on the strength of an injunction order issued in a suit filed by them for a mandatory injunction commanding the University and the College to allow the petitioners to appear at the said examination.

2. Writ Petition No. 4380 of 1983 was initially filed by 172 petitioners but subsequently an application was moved whereby 134 petitioners got the petition dismissed as not pressed. The remai