JUDGMENT :

P.B. SURESH KUMAR, J.

The questions arise for consideration in these writ petitions instituted by the same person are common and they are, therefore, disposed of by this common judgment. The cases relate to the right of the petitioner to obtain registration with the second respondent, the Travancore Cochin Medical Council (the State Medical Council) to practice medicine in terms of the Travancore Cochin Medical Practitioners Act, 1953 (the TCMP Act).

2. The parties and documents are referred to in this judgment, unless otherwise mentioned, as they appear in W.P.(C) No.18825 of 2021.

3. The petitioner, a citizen of India, after clearing the Senior Secondary Certificate Examination from a school affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education joined Dubai Medical College for Girls during September, 2014 for obtaining medical qualification without obtaining Eligibility Certificate insisted in terms of Section 13(4B) of the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956 (the IMC Act) in order to become eligible to seek medical qualification from a medical institution abroad. Later, during 2017, the petitioner applied to the then Medical Council of India (the Medical Council of India) a