COMMON JUDGMENT

(Judgment of the Court was delivered by S.M.SUBRAMANIAM, J.)

Writ appeals have been instituted challenging common order passed by writ Court in a batch of writ petitions on 01.08.2018.

2. Writ petitioners/students instituted writ petitions seeking refund of fee paid by them to appellant/Saveetha School of Law on the ground that the appellant admitted students to Law course without recognition from the Bar Council of India.

3. Writ Court adjudicated the issues and granted relief by directing appellant to repay the entire fee collected from writ petitioners.

4. Mr.P.Wilson, learned senior counsel appearing on behalf of appellant would mainly contend that as per prospectus, refund policy had been agreed between college management and students. Since they have agreed to refund policy and given an undertaking, they are bound by the conditions stipulated and as per policy, refund will be made to writ petitioners/students. Refund policy has been adopted by appellant based on guidelines issued by University Grants Commission. Thus, said guidelines are binding on appellant University as well as students who secured admission to Law course in appellant University.

5. Learned counse