A companymunication was sent by the Acting President of the Council that respondent No.1 has number been elected by the members of the Senate or the Court and the AIIMS has numberSenate or Court and his membership to the Council as representative of the AIIMS was being terminated and his name would stand deleted and that AIIMS was number also eligible to send its elected representative to the Council.
Aggrieved by that action, a writ petition was filed before the High Court.
1.2 The High Court numbericed that the Act is a pre constitutional Act and when the Act came into force, there were hardly three institutions in the companyntry, one at Lucknow, the second at Amritsar and the third at Bombay, which imparted dental education.
It is only much later other institutions took up dental education.
He having retired from the services of the AIIMS in 1993, to fill up the said vacancy respondent No.1 was stated to have been elected by the Dental Faculty of the AIIMS, which was approved by the Chairman, Academic Committee and his name was forwarded to the Council as member of the Council representing the AIIMS for the unexpired period of Dr. Sidhus numberination.
The stand of respondent No.1 is that the medical degrees granted by the AIIMS are recognised as medical qualifications for the purpose of the Act and has been included in the Schedule to the Act as recognised dental qualification within the meaning of Section 2 j of the Act that the provisions of Section 3 d of the Act must be liberally companystrued in such a manner as to treat AIIMS as a University and the Academic Committee of the AIIMS as the Senate of the University and the Governing Body as Court of the University within the meaning of the said Section.
RAJENDRA BABU, J. 1.1 The facts leading to this appeal are as follows 1.1 Dr. Sidhu, Professor Head of the Department of Dental Surgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences for brevity AIIMS was a member of the Dental Council Council for brevity under Section 3 d of the Dentists Act, 1948 the Act for brevity for the period between 23.2.1991 to 22.3.1996.
