JUDGMENT

Dipak Misra, J.

Leave granted.

2. The centripodal issue that emerges for consideration in this appeal, by special leave, compels us to think and constraints us to ruminate over the principle whether grant of monetary compensation can be considered as the sole and adequate remedy for a student who has been deprived of admission to the MBBS course, despite he or she being meritorious, vigilant and diligent and thereby abandoning the path of recalcitrance and eventually being found flawless, is forced to suffer non-admission to the course for which he had aspired for and found suitable because of lapses committed either by the counselling authority or the administrating authority intrinsically connected with the process of admission; and the ancillary issue that arises for deliberation is whether the constitutional courts, be it High Court or this Court, while exercising the power under Article 226 of the Constitution or under Article 32 or 136 of the Constitution, would feel handicapped because of expiry of time schedule fixed by the Court to deny the relief to the candidate by pronouncing, "relief denied as the time has expired". Mr. Vikas Singh, learned senior counsel appeari