YASHWANT CHAUHAN Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN

JUDGEMENT

(1.) All these writ petitions are disposed of by this common order because the questions involved in each of them are common.

(2.) In the State of Rajasthan, there are six medical colleges and number of seats sanctioned for admission in 1995 was 600. In the College at Kota five seats are stated to be vacant; four in respect of the quota of Government of India and one has not joined who was given admission. There are 40 seats in BDS College which have all been filled up. Few of the petitioners here were given admission in BDS and they have claimed admission in MBBS Course which will be considered in the foregoing paras. In the instructions for the guidance of the candidates intending to appear in PMT, 1995, guidelines for admission were also informed and clause (2) of the guidelines is as under:-

(3.) The validity of the illustration under the note of the above guidelines has been challenged in S.B. Civil Writ Petition No. 5005 / 95 . Besides this the point for decision by this court is as to whether the candidate if belonging to any reserve category has obtained more than minimum marks on which the admission was given in general category should be considered in general category i.e. the percentage of reservation fixed for the reserved category should be reduced from the number of such candidates who have obtained the admission on account of their merit and the marks obtained were more than the cut-off marks for which the admissions were given in general category.