JUDGMENT

This writ petition has been filed seeking various directions including direction to respondents 2 and 3 to admit the petitioner in the reserved seat of Post Graduate Medical Course in general surgery in the service quota in the year 2025.

2. Petitioner is working as a lecturer in the Department of General Surgery at the Government Medical College, Ernakulam with effect from 04.12.2012. Though the appointment to the said post was made in accordance with the Rules in force, except for the petitioner, all others were regularised. In the meantime, petitioner obtained selection to the PG Course as an in-service candidate, however, he was not granted admission, as his probation had not been declared. In such circumstances, petitioner approached this Court in this writ petition seeking a direction to reserve a seat for him in the PG Medical Course and also to grant him admission.

3. It is appropriate to mention that, in the meantime petitioner had approached the Kerala Administrative Tribunal in O.P.(KAT) No.143/2022 for regularisation of his service. Tribunal allowed the original petition, which was challenged by the respondents without success. Finally, the Supreme Court disposed