Cort in Special Leave Petition. It also appears that on 04.05.2007, the Apex Court had granted status quo in favour of the petitioner institution and others. Accordingly, this order was intimated to the Directorate of Education (Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Maharashtra) and to the President of the Maharashtra State Secondary and Higher Secondary Educational Board (Apex Body of respondent No.2), by the Deputy Secretary of the State of Maharashtra, vide communication dated 26.06.2007, with a direction to issue provisional Index Code to the institutions, which were parties to the said Special Leave Petition and also directing to accept the examination forms without charging late fee, for the examinations to be conducted in the month of March 2008, subject to the decision of the Special Leave Petition. Accordingly, respondent No.2, vide letter dated 12.11.2007, informed the petitioner and also granted the index code number to the petitioner. It appears that respondent No.1, vide communication dated 17.03.2008, informed the Director of Education that the Special Leave Petition, filed in the Apex Court came to be allowed on 16.01.2008. Vide impugned communication, respondent No.2 informed the petitioner to pay Rs.48,225/- and 1,14,675/- as late fees on or before 22.04.2008 and 14.08.2008 failing which results of the examinations held in the month of March 2008 would not be declared and forms of examinations to be held in the month of March 2009 would not be accepted. It appears that certain correspondence took place between the Board and the State Government in which the Board was directed by the State Government to take requisite action, as per the existing rules, for recovery of the late fees. Therefore, respondent No.1 directed the petitioner to pay the amount till 24.04.2009 failing which the results of the examinations held in the month of February / March 2009, would not be declared. Hence, the