GURINDERDEEP SINGH Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB

JUDGEMENT

(1.) GURINDERDEEP Singh, petitioner has filed the present petition under Articles 226/ of the Constitution of India vide which he has prayed for a writ of certiorari to be issued for the quashing of the order Annexure P -2 and further prays for a direction to be issued to the respondents to admit the petitioner against the paid seat to the BDS Course in the commencing session of 1998 -99 on the basis of the PMET held on 6.6.1998 as candidates much lower in merit to him have been granted admission.

(2.) THE case set up by the petitioner is that he appeared in PMET test held on 6.6.1998. He appeared in general category. His rank for the MBBS Course was at No. 982 and his ranking against the BDS Course was at No. 583. First counselling for admission to the BDS Course was to be held by respondent No. 3 on 3.8.1998 but later on it was deferred to 24.8.1998. The petitioner was not successful in getting the free seat in this counselling. A notice was put by respondent No. 3 under the signatures of the Chairman and notice was displayed on the notice board of the premises of Dental College, Patiala, for admission against the paid seats that the candidates are required to approach the private Colleges directly. Thereafter, the petitioner approached respondents 5 and 6 but was told that admission against the paid seats had already been completed. The grouse of the petitioner is that he had come to know that the candidates who are lower in rank than that of him had been given the paid scats in the BDS Course but he has been deprived of the seat. The petitioner met the Chairman of respondent No. 3 and brought to his notice about the state of affairs but to no effect. Consequently, the petitioner served a registered notice which too fell on the deaf ears of respondent No. 3. Hence the present writ petition.

(3.) I have heard the learned Counsel for the parties and with their assistance I have gone through the record of the case.