ORDER

1. Application for impleadment is allowed.

2. The learned counsel appearing for the petitioners seek leave to withdraw the applications seeking permission to file review petitions. The applications are dismissed as withdrawn.

Review Petition (C) No. 992 of 1998

3. By this review petition, the petitioner, viz., State of Maharashtra is seeking modification of the direction contained in the judgment of this Court dated 27-2-1998 passed in Ravindra Kumar Rai v. State of Maharashtra ((1998) 3 SCC 183). It is, therefore, directed that it should be treated as an application for modification instead of being treated as a review petition.

4. By our judgment dated 27-2-1998 in Ravindra Kumar Rai ((1998) 3 SCC 183) we had directed the respondents in the writ petition to hold a common entrance examination for the purpose of making selection for admission to medical colleges in the State of Maharashtra having regard to the provisions contained in Regulation 5 of the Regulations on Graduate Medical Education, 1997 framed by the Medical Council of India. It was directed that the State of Maharashtra and its Medical Education Department shall start the process for holding the common entrance