SURENDRAKUMAR Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN

JUDGEMENT

(1.) BY these writ petitions, the petitioners have challenged reservation of certain seats made by the Government of Rajasthan in the Medical Colleges run by it in the State. The petitioners have also challenged the notification No. F.5(1)ME/68 dated 30th August, 1968, (Exhibit 3) by which the Government of Rajasthan raised the upper age limit for admission to Medical Colleges in Rajasthan from 21 years to 22 years. Since all these writ petitions raise identical questions, we consider it convenient to dispose them of by a single judgment

(2.) ALL the petitioners passed the First Year of the Three Years Degree Course (Science) Examination in the year 1968 and applied for admission to the various Medical Colleges of Rajasthan for the session, commencing from July 1968. It may be stated here that there are five Medical Colleges in the State of Rajasthan run by the Government, and they are located at Jaipur, Bikaner, Udaipur, Jodhpur and Ajmer and all of them are affiliated to the University of Rajasthan. The last date for submission of applications for admission to the M. B. B. S. Classes of the said Medical Colleges was 25th June, 1968 and all the petitioners submitted their applications in the prescribed form before this date. They were all called for interview but were not admitted and therefore they have filed these writ applications before this Court praying that the reservations of certain seats made by the Government of Rajas -than in respect of certain classes of persons and the notification issued by the Government relaxing the upper age limit from 21 years to 22 years be struck down and further a direction be issued to the Government and the Principals of various Colleges to consider the applications of the petitioners for admission on the basis of merit after quashing the admissions of those candidates who have been admitted in pursuance of the reservations made by fee Government and also in pursuance of the notification raising the upper age limit.

(3.) PARA 4 (a) prescribes the age limit and lays down that candidates must have completed the age of 17 years at the time of admission or before 1st October of the year of admission and should not be more than 21 years age. Special provision has been made regarding candidates belonging to Scheduled Castes, and Scheduled Tribes of Rajasthan in the matter of age and the maximum age limit prescribed for them is 24 years at the time of admission. Similar special conditions have been prescribed in the case of Para -Medical Personnel, who are in service of the Government of Rajasthan but we do not consider it necessary to refer to them for the disposal of these writ petitions.