( 1 ) CANCELLATION of admissions of two students in an educational course of ten months' duration, nearly seven months after its commencement is under challenge in this writ petition.

( 2 ) THE factual matrix of the petitioner is not in controversy. The two petitioners, who are D. P. Ed. (Diploma in Physical Education) Course, to last for ten months, in Tatya Tope College of Physical Education, Shivpuri. They were allowed admissions on the basis of certificates showing that they were bona fide residents of Madhya Pradesh. Those certificates purported to be signed by Tehsildar, Shivpuri. The petitioners prosecuted the said course for about seven months, when on 8-4-1992 the Principal of the College passed two orders (Annexures P/3 and P/4) cancelling their admissions on the ground that the certificates of bona fide residence filed by them were not found to be signed by any revenue officer of Shivpuri and that they were not bona fide residents of Madhya Pradesh. These two orders are assailed in this petition as illegal with a prayer that they be quashed.

( 3 ) THE case of the petitioners is that they are in fact bona fide residents of Madhya Pradesh. Thus, petitioner