Ajay Kumar Tripathi, J.

On a prayer being made by counsel for the petitioners as well as the respondents all the four writ applications were clubbed together and heard together, since it is the decision of the Medical Council of India (hereinafter referred to as "M.C.I." for short), contained in Annexure-4, to all the writ applications, dated 02.12.2015, except in C.W.J.C. No. 6967 of 2016, where the date of impugned Annexure-4 is 21.01.2016, all these petitioners, who had been admitted in Post Graduate Courses by different institutions in the session 2014-2015 have been ordered to be discharged. The primary reason for doing so is said to be admission granted to these students after the cut-off date fixed by Hon'ble Supreme Court of India, which is 10th of July, 2014.

2. The petitioners are seeking not only quashing of impugned Annexure – 4, but also a direction upon the respondents not to interfere with their studies, since they have been continuing their studies uninterruptedly till the M.C.I. decided to pass the directive to discharge the petitioners.

3. The facts are not a matter of dispute and in fact there is commonality therein. Petitioners were all successful candida