JUDGMENT

Jyotsna Rewal Dua, J. - Petitioner No.1 is a private university, running petitioner No. 2 medical college. Their proposal, sent on 2.2.2019 seeking fee approval for certain new disciplines of MD/MS in the medical college for academic session 2019-20, was finally approved by the respondent State on 22.4.2020, wherein besides fixing/approving the fee for the already started academic session 2019-20 and for upcoming sessions 2020-21, 2021-22, certain other conditions were also imposed. Four such conditions, including retrospective fixing of fee for academic session 2019-20, are not acceptable to the petitioners. Therefore, they have preferred this petition.

2. Facts

2(i) Petitioner No.1-University was established under the Maharishi Markandeshwar University (Establishment and Regulation) Act 2010 (in short MMU Act). It is running petitioner No.2 medical college in the State, which is the only private medical college in the respondent State.

2(ii) In 2018, Medical Council of India (MCI) granted permission to the petitioners for starting new MD/MS courses in 12 new disciplines from academic session 2019-20 onwards. H.P. Private Educational Institutions Regulatory Commission also g