RELVE P.VERGHESE Vs. TAMIL NADU MEDICAL COUNCIL

JUDGEMENT

(1.) The issue involved in both the writ petitions is common and hence, both the writ petitions are taken up together and this common order is passed. On consent given by either side, the main writ petitions are taken up for final disposal.

(2.) W.P No.13410 of 2020 has been filed challenging the impugned rejection order passed by the Tamil Nadu Medical Council. The petitioner institution has an approved intake of 150 seats in the M.B.B.S. Course and it is affiliated to Dr.M.G.R. Medical University (herein after referred to as 'University'). The Petitioner institution admitted 150 students in the M.B.B.S. Course during the academic year 2014 - 2015 and 143 students completed the theory portion of the M.B.B.S. Course successfully and they were issued Provisional Certificate by the University on 25.03.2019.

(3.) After obtaining the Provisional Pass Certificate - I, the students will have to undergo the Compulsory Rotatory Residential Internship (C.R.R.I. ) for a period of one year and only then they can complete the M.B.B.S. Course. Accordingly, the petitioner institution issued an order dated 26.03.2019 giving the C.R.R.I. posting for the 143 students, who had successfully completed the theory portion. Those students had to undergo the C.R.R.I. internship for the period from 01.04.2019 to 31.03.2020. Before these students undergo the C.R.R.I. internship, the Tamil Nadu Medical Council will have to issue a temporary registration to the students. For that purpose, the petitioner institution submitted an application for temporary registration of the students in the on-line portal maintained for this purpose by the Tamil Nadu Medical Council. Unfortunately, an entry was made in the online portal, as if the students commenced their C.R.R.I. internship from 02.04.2019 instead of 01.04.2019. According to the petitioner, this was an inadvertent mistake and as a result of the same, the date of completion of the internship was also wrongly noted as 01.04.2020. In short, instead of mentioning the duration as 01.04.2019 to 31.03.2020, it was mistakenly entered as 02.04.2019 to 01.04.2020.