CAV Order

(Judgment Reserved on 26.04.2019) (Judgment Delivered on 07.05.2019)

1. All the cases are heard together as common question of law has been agitated and are under challenge.

2. Challenge in these writ petitions are to the notification dated 11.06.2018 issued by the Government of India, wherein the qualification percentile marks have been prescribed to get admission in the Ayurvedic, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy (AYUSH) under Graduate Courses. Whereas the Rules framed under the relevant Acts for admission to Ayurvedic and Homeopathic course prescribe different qualifications.

3. The present petitions are concerned with the admission in the Bachelor of Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery (BAMS) and Bachelor of Homeopathic Medicine and Surgery (BHMS).

4. Learned counsel for the petitioners would submit that the qualification to get admission in Ayurvedic course earlier to the holding of the NEET was governed by the Indian Medicine Central Council (Minimum Standards of Education in Indian Medicine) Regulations, 1986. It is stated that in such notification qualifying marks to get admission in AYUSH, which includes the admission in BHMS courses was prescribed as 50