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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS
S.S. SUNDAR, SATHI KUMAR SUKUMARA KURUP, JJ
Pondicherry Medical Colleges Students And Parents Association – Appellant
Versus
Chief Secretary To Government Of Puducherry – Respondent
JUDGMENT
SATHI KUMAR SUKUMARA KURUP, J.
1. The issue involved in the Review Application as well as the Writ Petition is one and the same. Therefore, both the cases are taken up for hearing together and disposed of by this common Judgment.
2. Mr. V.B.R. Menon, learned Counsel for the Review Applicant, at the out set, submitted that the instant Review Application has been tagged with the Writ Petition No.6371 of 2021 filed by some of the aggrieved MBBS Students and had been ordered to be heard as a batch of “Specially Ordered Cases”. The limited scope for entertaining the Review Application under Section 114 r/w. Order 47, Rule 1 of CPC, may not act as a bar to entertain and decide the instant Review Application together with the Writ Petition, as validity of the impugned G.O.Ms.No.24 of 2018, dated 03.07.2018 is the subject matter in both the cases. Therefore, the Review Application is maintainable on the following grounds:
(i) Errors apparent on the face of records.
(ii) Mistake of facts and laws.
(iii) Other sufficient reasons.
3. The learned Counsel for the Review Applicant would further submit that with regard to the first ground – errors apparent on the face of record, the order under
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