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Chelameswar \u00a0and Abhay Manohar Sapre, JJ., held that deemed universities are amenable to the writ jurisdiction of High Court under Article 226 of the Constitution thereby upholding the maintainability of the appeal and directed the Madras High Court to decide the appeal expeditiously on merit and in accordance with the law.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The appeal was against the judgement and order passed by the Madras High Court for non-maintainability of writ petition on the grounds that deemed university is neither a state nor an authority within the meaning of Article 12 of the constitution of India and hence is not subjected to writ jurisdiction of High Court under Article 226. The Court appointed noted counsel Harish Salve as the <em>Amicus Curiae<\/em> to assist the Court on the legal point involved in the present appeal According to the <em>Amicus Curiae<\/em>, any authority can be subjected to the rigor of Article 226 once it is proved that the function carried out by it falls under the domain of \u2018public function\u2019. Referring to various landmark decision on the point, Harish Salve stated that the question that whether \u201cimparting education to students at large\u201d is a \u2018public function\u2019 or not is no more in dispute. However Sanjay R. Hedge appearing for the respondent contended that in the event that the respondent is declared to be amenable under the writ jurisdiction of Article 226, a flurry of writ petitions shall unleash upon the Court further over burdening it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Court on perusing the contentions and important decisions on the point observed that since the respondent is engaged in imparting education in higher studies to students at large it is discharging &#8220;public function&#8221; by way of imparting education. Being a \u201cDeemed University\u201d as notified by the Central Governement, all the provisions of the UGC Act are applicable to respondent, which <em>inter alia <\/em>provides for effective discharge of the public function &#8211; namely education for the benefit of public. Once the respondent has been declared as \u201cDeemed University&#8221; whose functions and activities are governed by the UGC Act, then it is an &#8220;authority&#8221; within the meaning of Article 12 of the Constitution; then as a necessary consequence, it becomes amenable to writ jurisdiction of High Court under Article 226 of the Constitution. 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