JUDGMENT

A.K.Jayasankaran Nambiar, J.

The writ appeal is filed by the State of Kerala and its Higher Secondary Education and General Education Department, aggrieved by an interim order dated 28.10.2021 of a learned Single Judge in WP(C)No.23353 of 2021. In as much as the issue raised in the writ appeal lies in a very narrow compass and we felt that an adjudication of the appeal would effectively dispose the writ petition itself, we deemed it appropriate to call for the writ petition also for consideration along with the appeal. It is thus that both the writ appeal and the writ petition are before us today.

2. The writ petition was filed by a minor represented by his mother, who is a student, who passed the Secondary School Examination 2021 from the Central Board of Secondary Education. It is stated that the petitioner submitted an online application for admission to the Higher Secondary course (Plus One) (2021-2022) the allotment for which is undertaken by the Directorate of Higher Secondary Education of the State Government. It was the desire of the petitioner to get admission to the Science Biology seat through the Central allotment process undertaken by the State Government in one