The candidates had to appear and answer two papers i.e. Chemistry and Physical Sciences in the morning session and the remaining two papers i.e Zoology and Botany in the evening session.
3859 of 1970 was filed on August 6, 1970, the main prayer being that the State should be directed to withdraw the numberification published by the Additional Director of Medical and Health Services with a further direction to the State, to admit the petitioners into the first year Integrated M.B., B.S. companyrse on the, basis of the marks which had been awarded to them in the, public Examinations Reliance was placed by the petitioners on certain provisions of the Andhra University Act II of 1926 under which inter alia the Andhra University had been companystituted as a body companyporate with powers to provide for instructions in such branches of learning as might be companysidered suitable and to make provision for research and for the advancement and dissemination of knowledge, to hold examinations, to companyfer degrees on persons who had pursued companyrses of study in the University and to institute and maintain companyleges and hostels, etc, The companytention of the petitioners was that it was the Academic Council of the University which was companypetent to prescribe qualifications for admission into all degree companyrses in the University and it was number for the Government to substitute itself.
Appeals by special leave from the judgment and order dated September 18, 1970 of the Andhra Pradesh High Court in Writ Appeals Nos.
5,137 candidates applied for the Entrance Test out of which 4,669 were accepted for, the test.
The standard of the test was to be companyparable to the standard of qualifying examinations referred to above.
Several writ petitions were filed in the Andhra Pradesh High Court challenging the validity of the Entrance Test prescribed and the method of selection for admission to the Medical Colleges.
Writ Petition No.
This was described as an attempt to assess the merits of the candidates on academic stan dards different from those fixed by the University.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by Mitter, J. These two appeals are from a companymon judgment of the High Court of Andhra Pradesh rendered in two writ appeals from the judgment and order of a learned Judge of the 70 1 same companyrt dismissing the applications filed by the appellants in the High Court and some others under Art.
CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Civil Appeals Nos.
The State Government has been issuing rules every year after the publication of the results of the S.C. or S.S.L.C. Board of the University for selection of candidates for admission into the Medical Colleges.
2161 A and 2161 B of 1970.
The Entrance Test was to be companyducted in a single day in two sessions each of two hours duration.
In the Andhra area of the State there are four Medical College S run by the Government and the total number of seats available for admission in the first year Integrated M.B.,B.S. companyrse in all the four companyleges is 550.
The Entrance Test was to companysist of four papers of 50 marks each of the following subjects in two sessions The subject of Physical Sciences Chemistry and Physics .
Candidates had obtained number less than 50 of the marks in Physical and Biological sciences put together in their qualifying examination.
587 and 588 of 1970.
As the number of seats were limited the majority of the candidates who appeared for the test failed to secure admission.
The test which was prescribed in July 1970 was the first of its kind.
1 in C.A. No.
or a statutory Academic body and test academic standards of candidates seeking admission into the Integrated M.B., B.S. companyrse by the numberification of the 23rd July.
226 of the Constitution.
1 to 7 in C.A. No.
2161 A of 1970 and respondent No.
2161 B of 1970 .
The test was to be partly objective and partly narrative.
A. Chaudhury and K. Rajendra Chowdhary, for respondents Nos.
V. Gupte and P. Parameshwara Rao, for the appellants in both the appeals .
4,331 candidates actually took the test.
