MAHARISHI MARKANDESHWAR UNIVERSITY Vs. STATE OF HIMACHAL PRADESH

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Whether the fee structure for the undergraduate MBBS course of petitioner medical college, fixed by the respondent State vide communications/notifications dated 28.8.2017/5.9.2017 is conclusive, final for the academic years 2017-18 to 2021-2022 or not And whether it is open for the government to review/re-look/withdraw the notification dated 5.9.2017 by issuing memorandum dated 22.6.2018 directing the petitioners to submit fresh proposal for fee fixation for the sessions 2017-2022, are the primary questions involved in these three writ petitions. Therefore these writ petitions are taken up together for disposal.

(2.) Facts may be noticed hereinafter:-

(3.) We have heard learned counsel for the parties and with their assistance gone through the record. We have also perused the record produced by the respondent State. Contentions 3(i) On behalf of the petitioners, following arguments have been advanced in support of notifications dated 28.8.2017/5.9.2017 ( in so far as the same relates to the fee structure) and against the memorandum dated 22.6.2018;-