( 1 ) THE petitioner, Vinod Sagar Sood, who unsuccessfully sought admission in any of the Medical Colleges in the State, seeks a direction to the respondents Nos. 1 and 2 to consider his application "strictly on merits" and to admit him in any medical College. He also prays that Rule 5 of the "rules" framed by the government regulating admissions in Medical Colleges and the Dental College be declared ultra vires and quashed.

( 2 ) THE Government of Madhya Pradesh has laid down certain principles styled as

"rules for admission in Medical Colleges, and Dental College, 1966" for regulating admissions of students to these colleges. It has been laid down in these "rules" that selection of candidates from amongst those, who have applied for admission, will be made on merit as disclosed by the percentage of marks obtained in B. Sc. Part-I (Three years Degree Course) or its equivalent examination or in the B. Sc. Final or its equivalent examination, whichever is more favourable to the candidate; and that for assessing the merit of the candidates, who have taken more than the minimum number of years required to pass any of these examinations after the matriculation/ Higher Secon