JUDGMENT :

PRATEEK JALAN, J.

1. The petitioners in these two petitions, Ms. Tanya Mann [“Tanya”] and Ms. Anjali [“Anjali”] were both aspirants for admission to the MBBS course at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University [“the University”] in the academic year 2019-2020, in the Delhi Region Other Backward Classes Defence [“DOBCDEF”] category.

2. By way of W.P. (C) 8301/2019, Tanya challenges the admission granted to Anjali and another candidate, Atul, in the said category. It is the contention of Tanya that the aforesaid two candidates did not qualify for OBC reservation in terms of the relevant Office Memorandum issued by the Union of India [“the Office Memorandum”]. Tanya, having secured third position on merit in the aforesaid category, claims admission in their place. The reliefs in the writ petition are framed as follows:

“(A) to quash the Seat Status Reports- MBBS dated 26-07-2019 issued and notified by respondent No. 1 through their website notified on notice board after admission counseling conducted on 26-07-2019 (ANNEXURE-P-1) pertaining to DOBCDEF category for MBBS course for the session 2019- 2020.

(B) to direct the respondent No. 1 to withdraw the seat allotment letters iss