(1.) Some important questions pertaining to the right of the management of private aided colleges, which claim minority status, have cropped up in this bunch of writ petitions.
(2.) The primary question that falls for consideration is whether the management of a minority institution is bound to appoint the Head of the Institution only on the basis of "seniority cum fitness" as provided under S.59(3) of the Mahatma Gandhi University Act, 1985.
(3.) The other incidental or ancillary question that has been raised is :