L. NARASIMHA REDDY, J.

( 1 ) WHILE most of the principles relating to hindu Law were decided in the cases which arose under the Income Tax Act, those relating to reservation of seats in educational institutions fall for consideration mostly in cases involving admission into post-graduate and under-graduate medical courses. With new categories of reservation being added year after year, to the existing ones, the matter is yet to reach finality. In the State of andhra Pradesh, in addition to providing reservations under Article 15 (4) of the constitution of India, those in favour of physically handicapped candidates, service candidates and women, the State is under obligation to ensure reservation as per the orders issued in exercise of power under article 371-D of the Constitution of India, in favour of local candidates. Working out these reservations, some vertical, some horizontal, and yet others, in a way, diagonal, naturally poses the problems inherent in it. The importance and primacy of the courses naturally force the aggrieved candidates to approach the Courts.

( 2 ) FOR the current academic year, the process of admission into post-graduate medical courses into the institutio

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