Judgment

V.N. Khare, CJI.- Leave granted in the Special Leave Petition.

2. The core question involved in these writ petitions and appeal centres round the constitutional validity of reservation whether based on domicile or institution in the matter of admission into Post Graduate Courses in government run medical colleges.

3. For determination of the said question factual matrix of the matter, is being noticed from Writ Petition (Civil) No. 29 of 2003.

4. The petitioners who are 52 in number are original residents of Delhi. They joined various medical colleges out of Delhi for undertaking their MBBS Courses of studies against the 15 all-India quota on being qualified therefor in the All India Medical Entrance Examination.

5. The appellants intended to join the medical colleges of Delhi for their Post Graduate Medical Courses. They applied for and were granted admission forms having regard to the decision of this Court in Dr. Parag Gupta vs. University of Delhi and Others [(2000) 5 SCC 684]. In the Bulletin of Information issued by the University of Delhi, it was stated, that candidates like the appellants would be entitled for admission in Post Graduate Courses subject to the decision