JUDGMENT

(Prayer: Writ Appeal filed under Clause 15 of the Letters Patent, to set aside the order dated 25.10.2021 made in W.P.No.12782 of 2021 and allow the above Writ Petition as prayed for.)

D. Bharatha Chakravarthy

1. The brief facts leading to the filing of this Writ Appeal are, that the appellant, namely, Mrs.Ouwshitha Surendran, is an Overseas Citizen of India. The appellant pursued her school education in India in the Central Board of Secondary Education till her class 10 from Bhavan’s Gandhi Vidyashram, Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu. The appellant’s family moved to Sri Lanka and there she completed her 12th standard from Pearson Excel curriculum. Thereafter the appellant completed her MBBS degree from Sinchuan University, China. The appellant had returned to India and she is also married to an Indian.

2. In the matter of medical practice in India, Overseas Citizens of India are also treated on par with the citizens of India. As such any person who has pursued her MBBS degree outside India has to undertake and clear the Foreign Medical Graduate Examination conducted by