Eligibility for Ayurved medical officer posts requires full B.A.M.S. degree including 12-month compulsory internship completed by application cut-off; provisional registration valid only for internship does not qualify candidates.

JUDGMENT :

VIKAS BUDHWAR, J.

1. Heard Sri Onkar Nath, learned counsel for the writ petitioners, who are seven in number, Sri Gaurav Singh, learned Standing Counsel for the State and Sri F.A. Ansari, learned counsel for the Commission.

2. Since counter and rejoinder affidavits have been exchanged between the rival parties, they do not propose to file any further affidavit.

3. With the consent of the parties, the writ petition is being decided at the fresh stage.

4. The case of the writ petitioners is that an advertisement was published on 22.12.2025 for appointment of Medical Officers, on the post of Medical Officer, Ayurved and Medical Officer Community Health (Ayurved and Unani) being Advertisement No. D-6/E-1/2025 dated 22.12.2025. The last date of submission of application form was mentioned as 22-1-2026. The writ petitioner nos. 1 to 5 claim to have passed their B.A.M.S. Examination in the year 2024 from Kalawati Ayurvedic Medical College & Research Centre & Hospital, Gorha, Kasganj which is affiliated to Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University, whereas the writ petitioner nos. 6 and 7 cleared their B.A.M.S. Examination in the year 2024 from Jeevan Jyoti Ayurvedic Medical College & Hospital, Aligarh affiliated to Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar University, Agra. The writ petitioner nos. 1 to 4 claim to have completed their six months allopathic internship from District Hospital Etah / Veerangana Avantibai Lodhi Autonomous State Medical College, Etah. The writ petitioner no.5 claims to have completed her six months Ayurvedic Internship from Kalawati Ayurvedic Medical College & Research Centre & Hospital, Kasganj which is affiliated to Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar University, Agra and writ petitioner no.6 from District Hospital Aligarh, followed by writ petitioner no.7 Jeevan Jyoti Ayurvedic Medical College & Hospital, Aligarh. The writ petitioner nos. 1 to 5 claim to have got themselves registered as doctor from the Board of Ayurvedic and Unani Tibbi Systems of Medicine U.P. at Lucknow on 27.01.2025 and petitioner Nos. 6 and 7 on 30.01.2025. According to the writ petitioners, though the last date of submission of the application form was 22.01.2026, but since one year internship of the petitioner would be completed 28.02.2026, thus the respondents be directed to accept the application form of the writ petitioners beyond the cut-off date.

5. This Court entertained the writ petition on 03.02.2026 while seeking response.

6. Counter affidavit has been filed on behalf of the Commission sworn by Deputy Secretary dated 16.02.2026 to which a rejoinder affidavit has been filed.

7. Learned counsel for the writ petitioner has submitted that the writ petitioner is entitled to be accorded the benefit of extension of the date for submission of application form from 22.01.2026 to 28.02.2026, particularly when a provisional registration certificate came to be issued under Section 28 of the Central Council of Indian Medicine Act , 1970 of B.A.M.S. having registration dated on 27.01.2025, thus merely because on account of the fact that Pandemic relating to CORONA was there, the session got delayed and the examination were postponed and deferred and once provisional certificate came to be issued, then the writ petitioners are entitled to be treated to be qualified and merely because their internship is to be completed by 28.02.2026, the same would not be a ground to forestall their claim for participating for the selection on the said post in that regard.

8. Sri Ansari, who appears for the