JAFER AHMED Vs. J N V UNIVERSITY JODHPUR

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THE facts and controversy involved in this bunch of petitions is common and therefore, for the sake of arguments, facts of S. B. Civil Writ Petition No. 4694/2003 `jafer Ahmed vs. J. N. V. University, are taken into consideration.

(2.) LEARNED counsel for the petitioner submits that while the tests for Rajasthan Pre Medical and Rajasthan Pre Veterinary, examinations were conceived, for the guidance of the student, an information booklet was published. It has been produced with the petition annexure 1. This booklet was published having information about the modalities of admission process. In this booklet at page 17 mode of admission has been delineated which reads as under: The merit list of the successful and eligible candidate of RPMT/pvt-2003 shall be prepared category-wise. These successful and eligible candidates will be admitted in order of merit in General as well as reserved category up to the seats available in that category except the seats belonging to Category (a) of Rule 2 mentioned above. If the merit of any reserved category remains unexhausted after completing the reservation quota of each category under reservation then the remaining candidates from the list of that category shall be eligible for consideration for admission only on merit basis against the general category if they are eligible to compete with the candidates of General category. Candidates securing equal numbers of marks in the RPMT/pvt- 2003 will be admitted in the following order of preference. i) One who has secured more marks in Science Biology group subject (Physics, Chemistry and Biology) at the Senior Secondary (10+2) Examination or its equivalent recognized examination. ii) Among the candidates securing equal number of marks in the Science Biology group subjects at the Senior secondary (10+2) Examination or its equivalent recognized examination preference in order will be given to the candidate who has passed this qualifying examination in lesser number of attempts. iii) If there is further tie, preference in order will be given to the candidate who has secured more marks in Secondary School Examination or its equivalent recognized examination. iv) Admission of candidates who have passed the qualifying examination from the University/board of the State other than Rajasthan will be provisional till the Eligibility Certificate is issued by the Rajasthan Agricultural University, Bikaner after fulfilling the necessary requirement by the candidate".

(3.) ACCORDING to the learned counsel for the petitioner, change which has been brought about in the mode of admission is delineated in paragraph 8 of the writ petition which reads as under: " That it is pertinent to note here that the counselling has been started w. e. f. 21. 8. 03 and on that date the candidates of General Boys Category were called for their counselling in order of merit and simultaneously, the OBC Boys as well as ST Boys were also called for their counseling. But at the time of counselling the candidates belonging to reserve category, who competed with the general category, were included in General Boys Category, resulting which the merit list was changed and the candidate like petitioner who was earlier placed in merit at S. No. 213 has now been placed much below in the merit list of the general boys category".