Judgment

RANGANATH MISRA, J.:- This application under Article 136 of the Constitution is for special leave and is directed against dismissal of the petitioners writ petition as also the Letters Patent Appeal against the learned single Judges decision by the High Court of Andhra Pradesh. In the academic year 1986-87 there was only one seat available in the Nizam Institute of Medical Sciences at Hyderabad in the whole of the State of Andhra Pradesh in D. M. Neurology. Selection examination for it was held in the month of March, 1987, by the University of Health Sciences constituted under the Andhra Pradesh University of Health Sciences Act, 1986. The State Government prescribed a set of rules to govern the admission to the said super-speciality. The Presidential Order known as Andhra Pradesh Educational Institutions (Regulation of Admissions) Order, 1974 issued under clauses (1) and (2) of Article 371-D of the Constitution applied to reservations in the matter of admission to the said super-specialities.

2. In the entrance test of March 1987, the petitioner ranked as number one. At the time of interview, he opted to undertake D. M. (Neurology) but his claim was rejected on the basis th