PALLAVI TIWARI Vs. UNION OF INDIA & ORS

JUDGEMENT

(1.) HEARD Sri Heera Lal Srivastava, Sri R.K.S. Chauhan, Sri Ashok Kumar Pandey, Sri Amit Srivastava, Sri Jai Narain Pandey , Sri Sunil Kumar Singh, Sri S.A. Jamal , Sri O.P. Tewari , Sri Ajai Kumar Singh , Sri Jai Prakash Singh , Sri K.K. Seth, Sri Arvind Misra, Sri H.G.S. Parihar , Sri Sreesh Chandra Misra , Sri Vimal Kumar Pandey, Sri Kamlesh Kumar Rai , Sri S.P. Dwivedi , Sri Ved Prakash Shukla, Sri Durgesh Vijay Srivastava, Sri Syed Aftab Ahmad, Sri S.K. Misra , Sri Suresh Chandra Shukla, Sri Anil Kumar Misra, Sri Sanjeet Singh , Sri Ram Nayak Tripathi , Sri Sanjay Kumar Pandey , Sri Maheep Kumar Singh , Sri O.N. Pandey , Sri K.K. Singh Somvanshi , Sri Sarvesh Kumar Misra , Sri Vineet Kumar Pandey , Sri D.P. Singh Somvanshi , Sri A. K. Pandey , Sri K.K. Verma , Sri Pradeep Kumar Singh , Sri V.S. Trivedi , Sri J.N. Misra and Sri Amit Sharma learned counsel for the petitioners in connected writ petitions and Sri Vinay Bhushan , learned counsel for National Council of Teachers Eduction , Sri Rakesh Srivastava, learned Standing Counsel for State of U.P. , Sri S.P. Shukla , learned counsel for Lucknow University Sri Jayant Singh Tomar, learned counsel appearing on behalf of Union of India and Dr. Ravi Misra, learned counsel for one of the respondents.

(2.) AS the common questions of law and facts are involved in the present writ petitions, so with the consent of the learned counsel for the parties of the writ petitions, which are clubbed together are being heard and decided by a common judgment. BRIEF FACTS

(3.) THEREAFTER , Lucknow University, Lucknow on 4.2.2010 issued an advertisement/brochure for conducting the Entrance Examination and the last date for submission of examination forms was fixed as 20.3.2010 and the examination was to be held on 5.5.2010. One of the eligibility criteria as mentioned in the advertisement/brochure required to be possessed by a candidate to appear in the Entrance Examination is as under:-