Judgment

RANGANATH MISRA, J.:- Both these are applications under Art. 32 of the Constitution, the first one by three petitioners and the second by one. The respondent All India Institute of Medical Sciences has been set up under a Central Act of that name of 1956. Section 13 of the Act provides the objects of the Institute which are-

"(a) to develop patterns of teaching in undergraduate and post-graduate medical education in all its branches so as to demonstrate a high standard of medical education to all medical colleges and other allied institutions in India; (b) to bring together in one place educational facilities of the highest order for the training of personnel in all important branches of health activity; and (c) to attain self-sufficiency in post-graduate medical education."

2. Section 14 of the Act lays down the functions of the Institute and, inter alia, provides in cls. (a) and (b):

"14. With a view to the promotion of the objects specified under Section 13, the Institute may-

(a) provide for undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in the science of modern medicine and other allied sciences including physical and biological sciences;

(b) provide facilities for research in the