JUDGMENT - G.H. GUTTAL, J.:---These petitions under Article 226 of the Constitution of India are by students who completed the requisite training for the Diploma Course known as "Diploma in Medicine and Surgery (Rural)" under the Scheme laid down by the Government of Maharashtra. They seek a direction (i) to the Government of Maharashtra that the Diploma be awarded to them and (ii) to the Maharashtra Medical Council that the petitioners be registered as Medical Practitioners under section 16 of the Maharashtra Medical Council Act.

2. The historical background of the case and the facts leading to the petitioners right to the reliefs are set out in paragraphs 3 and 4 below. The facts of the case of Chandrashekhar Karve, the petitioner in Writ Petition No. 2794 of 1989 are stated in details in Paragraph 5. The cases of the petitioners in Writ Petition Nos. 3058, 3908, 4896 and 3354, all of 1989, are identical in all respects and therefore, their cases re briefly set out in paragraph 6 below.

3. On 28th September, 1979, the Government of Maharashtra, by a Resolution, started a three-year Diploma course in Medicine, designed to serve the rural population. The course commenced in the Civi

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