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Date ord o e r r d s ir o e r c p ti r o o n c s e e a d n i d n gs COURT’S OR JUDGE’S ORDERS Registrar’s order with Signatures WPMS No.3161 of 2019 With WPMS No. 3134 of 2019 WPMS No.3136 of 2019 WPMS No.3140 of 2019 WPMS No.3167 of 2019 WPMS No.207 of 2021 WPMS No.461 of 2021 WPMS No.933 of 2021 WPMS No.1007 of 2022 WPMS No.3429 of 2022 WPMS No.48 of 2026 WPMB No.1070 of 2025 WPMS No.409 of 2023 WPMS No.3094 of 2024 WPMS No.1062 of 2025 WPMB No.474 of 2025 WPMB No.563 of 2025 WPMS No.933 of 2021 Hon’ble Alok Mahra, J.

Mr. T.A. Khan, learned Senior counsel along with Mr. Navneet Kaushik along with Mr. Niranjan Bhatt, learned counsel for the petitioners.

2. Mr. Manoj Kumar, learned Standing Counsel for the Union of India.

3. Mr. Devendra Pant, learned Standing Counsel for the State.

4. Ms. Abhilasha Tomar, proxy counsel for Mr. Sandeep Kothari, learned counsel for respondent no.4.

5. Mr. Piyush Garg, learned counsel for the intervener.

6. Since all these petitions raise identical issues concerning the dispute relating to admission to the B.A.M.S. course for academic sessions 2018-2019, 2019-2020, 2020-2021, they are being heard together.

7. Learned counsel for the petitioners would submit that the present writ petitions have been filed seeking a direction to respondent no. 2 to enroll the students admitted by the petitioners’ college and to permit them to appear in their practical as well as semester examinations in the B.A.M.S. course.

8. Learned counsel would further submit that admission to the B.A.M.S. course was made subject to qualification in NEET pursuant to the Central Government Notification/Regulation dated 07.12.2018, whereby NEET was prescribed as a mandatory eligibility criterion for admission to the said course. It is submitted that NEET was introduced for the first time in the academic session 2018–2019, which resulted in the filing of several writ petitions across the country challenging the requirement of NEET as an essential qualification for admission to the B.A.M.S. course; that, the issue ultimately reached the Hon’ble Supreme Court, which, in Association of Managements of Homeopathic Medical Colleges of Maharashtra v. Union of India & Ors. reported in (2019) 20 SCC 511, held that for the academic session 2018– 2019, qualification in NEET was not an essential requirement for admission to the B.A.M.S. course. Thereafter, in subsequent civil appeals, the Hon’ble Apex Court relaxed the condition of mandatory