1. Ms.Aheli Bal has come to this Court seeking a prayer for issuance of a writ of mandamus, to direct the first respondent-JIPMER, Puducherry to treat the marks secured by her in the second semester of the M.B.B.S. Course in the subject of Anatomy as a “pass” and to pass further orders.

2. Ms.R.Vaigai, learned counsel for the petitioner argued that Ms.Aheli Bal, a brilliant student who got the 27th rank in the medical entrance examination on all India basis, was selected purely on merits by the first respondent-Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry and after joining the M.B.B.S. Course, she cleared the first semester and also wrote all the subjects in the second semester examination held between 7th June, 2013 and 19th June, 2013. But the provisional list was published on 23.7.2013 in the notice board of the first respondent showing that the petitioner failed in the subject of anatomy, although she secured more than 50% in aggregate in all the subjects. When the petitioner enquired with the first respondent, she was informed that so far as the practical part of anatomy subject is concerned, when the minimum mark is 50 a