(Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SAMARENDRA PRATAP SINGH)

This appeal has put to challenge, in substance, the mode of allotment of seats in various disciplines of medical sciences, in undergraduate courses, in the State of Bihar. The State Government has made a scheme for reservation of seats in favour of certain deprived sections of the society. It is the procedure adopted for allotment of seats, in the light of the scheme of the State Government, which is the subject matter of challenge in the present appeal.

2. Let us, now, take note of the admitted facts governing the policy of allotment of seats in various disciplines of medical sciences under the impugned policy of the State Government.

3. Since the year 1997, Bihar Combined Competitive Entrance Examination Board (BCECE Board), constituted under Bihar Combined Competitive Entrance Examination Act, 1995, has been conducting, every year, Bihar Combined Competitive Entrance Examination, for selecting candidates in order to admit them in the first year graduate level professional courses in Medical, Engineering and Agriculture streams in various Institutions of the State of Bihar.

4. It was for the first time in the year 2013 t