JUDGMENT - S.S. PARKAR, J.:---Heard Mr. Anturkar for the petitioner and Mrs. Gokhale, A.G.P. for the respondent -State. By this writ petition under Article 226 of the Constitution the petitioner has challenged Rule 3(b) of the Rules for selection to M.B.B.S. and B.D.S. Course for 1997-98. The said Rule provides as follows:

"(b) The applicant must have passed the S.S.C. or equivalent examination from Maharashtra.

Provided that for a child of any employee of Central Government or Government of India undertaking transferred to Maharashtra State and joined before the last date prescribed for submission of application and is in the service in jurisdiction of respective region, this condition would stand relaxed."

2. The petitioner has passed her H.S.C. examination from Ruparel College in Bombay, Maharashtra. The petitioner obtained 92.35 per cent marks in Physics, Chemistry and Biology Group. The petitioner's father was working in Baharain in Arabian Gulf where the petitioner was staying with him and, therefore, the petitioner has done her S.S.C. equivalent examination viz. C.B.S.E. viz. Central Board of Secondary Education from Indian School in I.S.A. Town, Bahrain, she passed her S.S.C.

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