ORDER :

In this batch of writ petitions, the petitioners challenged the proceedings in Roc.No.2006/E1A/MBBS/MP/2021 dated 19.11.2021 of 3rd respondent imposing punishment to them for use of unfair means by disqualifying them for a period of three years including April 2021 from the whole examination.

2. The petitioners are the 1st year MBBS students studying in 5th respondent Medical College. During the 1st year MBBS main examination, they failed in certain subjects, particularly in Biochemistry. The petitioners’ case is that they appeared in supplementary examinations conducted in the month of April 2021 and completed the exams on 30.04.2021 and during the course of examination they were not booked for any malpractice being committed in the examination hall and on the other hand after completing the examination they returned home. Their further case is that on that evening at about 7.00 P.M., while the petitioners were at their respective residences, the police of IV Town Police Station, (Dargamitta PS), Nellore called them by phone to the residential Flat No.102 of Pooja Sathyadevam Apartment situated in Saraswathi Nagar, Nellore belonging to Sri Dr. Singamsetti Bhaskar, Assistant