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PETITIONER:

STATE OF BIHAR AND ORS

Vs.

RESPONDENT:

DR. SANJAY KUMAR SINHA AND ORS.

DATE OF JUDGMENT15/11/1989

BENCH:

MISRA RANGNATH

BENCH:

MISRA RANGNATH

SAWANT, P.B.

RAMASWAMY, K.

CITATION:

1990 AIR 749 1989 SCR Supl. (2) 168

1990 SCC (4) 624 JT 1989 (4) 320

1989 SCALE (2)1124

CITATOR INFO :

RF 1990 SC2030 (4)

RF 1991 SC 909 (2)

ACT:

Professional Colleges--Admission to: Bihar Medical

Colleges-Admission to Post-graduate courses--Cut off date of

eligibility-Compliance with orders of Supreme Court fixing

time schedule-Necessity for.

HEADNOTE:

In a Writ Petition filed before the High Court, the

respondents, a group of medical graduates, challenged the

prospectus for admission to the post-graduate medical,

courses, for the year 1989, which prescribed 31st May, 1989

as cut-off date of eligibility, as contrary to the direc-

tions of this Court in Dr. Dinesh Kumar & Ors. v. Motilal

Nehru Medical College, Allahabad & Ors., [1987] 4 SCC 459.

Finding that the timeframe set by this Court was not adhered

to, the High Court quashed the prospect