J U D G M E N T

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The petitioners, who are undergoing Final Year Medical PG Course, seek to command the respondents to permit the petitioners to pay the PG examination fee for examination scheduled during December, 2024 – January, 2025. The petitioners also seek to invalidate Circular dated 22.05.2024 of the Kerala University of Health Sciences to the extent it insists at least 80% attendance in the Final Year to satisfy the requirement of attendance to appear for the University examinations.

2. The respondents and exhibits are referred to in this judgment as they are arrayed / marked in W.P.(C) No.39195/2024, for convenience.

3. The petitioners are Doctors, who were given admission for Post Graduate Courses in various Medical Colleges in the State in April-May, 2022. The petitioners are not permitted to appear in the Medical PG Degree examinations on the ground that they have not secured the mandatory 80% attendance as prescribed by the National Medical Commission.

4. The petitioners state that from the Academic Year 2021-2022 onwards the competent authority had decided to conduct four rounds of all India quota counselling for NEET – Undergraduate and Post Graduate as p