ORDER

M.M. Das, J.

1. W.P. (C) No. 10733 of 2009 has been filed by the Principal, Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences (for short, ' the KIMS') and W.P. (C) Nos. 16444, 16445, 16446, 16447, 16448 and 16449 of 2009 have been filed by six petitioners-students of the said institution, who have been asked to be discharged from the M.B.B.S. Course, 2008-09.

2. The brief facts leading to the case are that the six petitioners-students appeared in the Orissa Joint Entrance Examination, 2008. Being selected to take admission in M.B.B.S. Course and being allotted the Medical College, i.e. the KIMS, they took admission in the said college and continued to study M.B.B.S. Course and were due to appear in the 1st year M.B.B.S. Examination in the month of July, 2009, but were not permitted by the Utkal University to appear in the said examination in view of the letter dated 23-3-2009 of the Medical Council of India (for short, the M.C.I.") addressed to the Principal, KIMS, copy of which was endorsed to the Registrar, Utkal University and the authorities of the State.

Be it mentioned here that by an interim order passed by this Court, the said six petitioners-students were permitted to appear in the