JUDGMENT :

HEMANT GUPTA, J.

1. The present appeals are directed against orders dated 29.7.2021 and 20.9.2021 passed by the High Court of Judicature at Madras in the writ petitions filed for quashing the circulars issued by the Tamil Nadu Medical Council on 12.11.2020 and 24.12.2020 and consequential orders of directing respondent No. 1/writ petitioner¹[For short, the ‘student’] to undergo two months of Compulsory Rotatory Residential Internship, ²[For short, the ‘CRRI’] followed by one year of internship before granting permanent registration under the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956³ [For short, the ‘Act] (now repealed by the National Medical Commission Act, 2019).

2. The brief facts leading to the present appeals are that the student and other similarly situated students after qualifying the eligibility test i.e. as per “The Eligibility Requirement for Taking Admission in an Undergraduate Medical Course in a Foreign Medical Institution Regulations, 2002⁴[For short, the ‘Eligibility Regulations’] joined medical colleges in the People’s Republic of China, such as Qingdao University Faculty of Medicine⁵[For short, the ‘Foreign Institute’]. It is the stand of the students that they hav