JUDGMENT - D.R. DHANUKA, J. :---These petitions filed by the various students seeking admission to M.B.B.S. course during the academic year 1994-95 involve consideration of the following questions :---

(i) Whether the Rules for selection to M.B.B.S./B.D.S. Courses and particularly Rule 3.3.0 prohibits the candidates like the petitioners passing qualifying examination in March, 1993 as ineligible for seeking admission to M.B.B.S./B.D.S. courses for the academic year 1994-95?

(ii) Whether Rules for admission to M.B.B.S./B.D.S. courses for the academic year 1994-95 issued and published by the State Government on 10th June, 1994 and particularly Rule 3.3.0 treats the candidates passing the qualifying examination i.e. H.S.C. (12th Standard) examination in the month of March, 1994 alone as eligible for admission to such courses?

(iii) Whether the view taken by the Division Bench of our High Court i.e. Aurangabad Bench Aurangabad in Writ Petition No. 2143 of 1994 and companion matters requires reconsideration by larger bench of this Court?

2. For the sake of convenience, we shall summarise the facts concerning Writ Petition No. 3867 of 1994 in the first instance.

(a) Sometime in the month of

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