Vibhu Bakhru, J.

1. These are writ petitions filed by the petitioners challenging clause 4(3) of the Screening Test Regulations, 2002 as introduced by “the Screening Test Regulations (Amendment), 2010, issued and notified on 16.04.2010 by the Medical Council of India. As all the writ petitions involve a similar challenge to clause 4(3) of the Screening Test Regulations, 2002 (hereinafter referred as the 'impugned regulation'), the same have been taken up together. In order to consider the controversy involved in the present writ petitions, the relevant facts stated in W.P.(C) 1655/2013 are being referred herein.

2. The petitioner in W.P.(C) 1655/2013 (hereinafter referred to as the petitioner) cleared his Higher Secondary Certificate Examination on 05.06.2006 from the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education, Pune. Thereafter, the petitioner was admitted in Smolensk State Medical University, Smolensk, Russia, in the first year of a six year medical course equivalent to the MBBS Course in India. The petitioner successfully completed the first four years of the course from the said University during the academic years 2006-07 to 2009-2010. There