Supreme Court of India

Dr. Kriti Lakhina and Others v. State of Karnataka and Others

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Reported as [2018] 3 S.C.R. 517
Bench Arun Mishra and Uday Umesh Lalit JJ.
Decided 4 April 2018

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What the Court ordered

In the result, we allow the writ petitions, declare sub-c lause (a) of Clause 2.1 of the two Information Bulletins for postgraduate medical and dental courses for PGET-2014 as ultra vires Article 14 of the Constitution and null and void.

Judgment, page 14

From the headnote

Education/Educational Institutions: Medical educati on – Admission to Post Graduate courses – Clause 4 of the Informa tion Bulletin issued by Directorate of Medical Education, Government of Karnataka and Karnataka Examinations Authority, Gov ernment of Karnataka – Imposition of condition of domicile for 10 years in Karnataka, for admission to MD, MS and Post-Graduat e courses in respect of 50% government quota seats in Medical /Dental Colleges in the State of Karnataka – Writ petition by do ctors who did their MBBS/BDS Courses from State of Karnataka and have cleared the NEET-PG, 2018

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 2 mentioned

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