JUDGMENT

CHINNAPPA REDDY, J. —Writ Petitions questioning admissions to the medical colleges at Srinagar and Jammu appear to have become an annual feature in this Court. In the previous years, there was some justification. It does not appear, to be so this year. In these writ petitions, the selection of candidates for admission to the medical colleges at Srinagar and Jammu as well as the nominations by the Government of Jammu & Kashmir to medical colleges outside the State are in question. On May 24, 1983, the Government Jammu & Kashmir issued an advertisement inviting applications from permanentent residents of Jammu and Kashmir State for admission to the first year MBBS in the medical colleges at Jammu and Srinagar. One of the conditions of eligibility was that a candidate should have passed the "First TDC (Medical Group) examination from Jammu & Kashmir Board of School Education with not less than 50 of the total marks in English and Science subjects taken together". There was some relaxation in favour of candidates belonging to the Scheduled Castes, etc., with which we are not now concerned. We are also not concerned in them writ petitions with the reservations, made is favour