RAJIV SAHAI ENDLAW, J.

1. The two petitioners filed this petition pleading that they had in the year 2009 and 2008 respectively completed and passed the course of Post Basic B.Sc. in Nursing from the respondent no.1 Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) with study centre at Safdarjung Hospital and were awarded the Degrees therefor; that they had in July, 2010 applied for admission to the course of M.Sc. Nursing in respondent no.4 Nightingale Institute of Nursing; that the respondent no.4 demanded NOC of the respondent no.2 Indian Nursing Council (INC) for confirmation of admission of the petitioners; that the petitioners accordingly applied to INC but INC vide its letter dated 4th August, 2010 informed the petitioners that INC had only approved 11 study centres for Post Basic B.Sc. Nursing Programme through distance learning by IGNOU and Safdarjung Hospital was not included therein and thus denying registration to the petitioners for M.Sc. Nursing Course in the respondent no.4 College. The petitioners claim that they, thereafter approached the IGNOU which confirmed that it was recognized for granting Degree for Post Basic B.Sc. Nursing Course and the Degree awarded to the

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