1. Since these three writ petitions canvass the same issue, they are being heard and disposed of together by this common judgment. Ranks of parties, pleadings and Exhibits are referred to in this judgment are as obtaining in W.P(C) No. 22084/2010, unless otherwise made clear.

2. The Supreme Court of India started two judgments relating to admissions to professional colleges in the country with a quotation from Shakespere's 'Othello'. The first judgment was in 1995, viz. Convenor, MBBS/BDS Selection Board v. Chandan Mishra, 1995 Suppl. (3) SCC 77. That quotation was extracted by the Supreme Court again in the decision of Medical Council of India v. Madhu Singh and others, 2002(7) SCC 258. I quote here the first paragraph of the 2nd judgment, which reads thus:

"This appeal filed by the Medical Council of India (in short "MCI”) raises important questions regarding desirability of belated admissions to medical colleges in different courses, both pregraduate and postgraduate. The questions assume importance because filing a large number of petitions before various High Courts and this Court has become an annual feature. When the time of admission to medical courses arrives, im