The Order of the Court was as follows :

Petitioner-University applied to the respondent for issue of No-Objection Certificate for making an application to the Medical Council of India for starting a Medical College in collaboration with Tamil Nadu Hospital Academic Trust. There was no reply from respondent. But the respondent issued a Notification in G. O. No. 347 dated 18-6-1998. In that Notification, it is said that the Government has made it clear that the No Objection Certificate will not be issued by the Government for setting up medical colleges by self-financing institutions. This decision is purported to have been arrived by the Government on the basis of a Report by a High Power Committee appointed to look into the working of educational institutions conducted by self-financing institutions. It is said that the report of the Committee has not been made public, nor was it furnished to the petitioner-University before the above decision was taken. According to the petitioner, the above said notification is ultra vires and the same is liable to be quashed.

2. It is said that the respondent-State cannot restrain the petitioner from setting up an institution for the p