JUDGMENT

S.RAJENDRA BABU, J.

(1) LEAVE granted.

(2) RESPONDENT filed a writ petition in the High Court of Madras seeking a direction to the petitioner to apply the rule of reservation to the scheduled castes and scheduled tribes in respect of those seats which are set apart for all India pool in the M.B.B.S. or B.D.S. list. He had applied specifically in the category of scheduled caste and scheduled tribe for the All India Pre-medical Entrance Examination, 1999. However, when the results were published, he found that no separate list had been published in respect of that category. He contended that there is a constitutional obligation to provide a special reservation to the advancement of socially and educationally backward classes in the all India quota as otherwise, it would be violation of Article 15(4) of the Constitution of India. He sought for a direction to apply the rule of reservation.

(3) A learned single judge of the High Court held that the seats that are made available from various states are normally subject to the rule of reservation and the 15% of the seats allowed to the all India quota would, in the ordinary circumstances, have