Supreme Court of India

Sudhir N. & Ors. v. State of Kerala & Ors.

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Reported as [2015] 1 S.C.R. 884
Bench T.S. Thakur and R. Banumathi JJ.
Decided 12 January 2015

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What the Court ordered

In the result, these appeals fail and are hereby dismissed but in the circumstances without any order as to costs.

Judgment, page 23

From the headnote

Kera/a Medical Officers' Admission to Post Graduate Courses under Service Quota Act, 2008 - s. 5(4) - Admission to Post-graduate Medical Courses in-service quota - On the basis of seniority - Constitutional validity of - Held: As per regulation 9 of Medical Council of India Regulations, admission can be made strictly on the basis of inter-se academic merit of the candidates and not by taking into account the service rendered by them in rural areas - Weightage of such service is permissible while determining the merit of the candidates only in terms of the third proviso to Regulation 9 - s.

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 2 referred to

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