Pursuant to a Notification issued by the Selection Committee, Directorate of Medical Education, for admission to three year Higher Speciality Courses in Tamilnadu Government Medical Colleges, for the academic year 2009-2010, the petitioner has applied for admission to Higher Speciality Course and he opted for D.M.(Medical Gastro Enterology) course, under open category. Eight seats are notified for the said course. 50% of the seats are reserved for in service candidates and 50% of the seats are earmarked for open category candidates.

2. According to the petitioner, four seats are earmarked for non-service candidates. An interview was held on 12.08.2009, and four candidates were selected under non-service category, and four in service candidates were selected from the overall merit list. As per the order of merit, the petitioner was placed at serial No.7 in the overall ranking, and at Serial No.5 under non-service category. As the petitioner was placed at serial No.7 in the open merit list, he should have been placed at Serial No.1 in the waiting list. However, during the interview, instead of calling the wait listed candidates from the respective categories, 2 candidates