They further prayed for a writ of mandamus or a writ in the like nature directing the respondents to companysider the case of the students who are residing in the limits of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation and who have passed the qualifying examination from the school s situated within the limits of the Ahmedabad Urban Development Area hereinafter referred to as AUDA for admission in the Medical College referred to above as local students.
1999 Supp 3 SCR 647 The Judgment was delivered by SANTOSH HEGDE, J. SANTOSH HEGDE, J. Leave granted Heard learned companynsel for the parties Before the High Court of Gujarat, the respondents herein challenged the companystitutional validity of Rule 6 i and Rule 7 of the Rules for Admission to Smt.
N. H. L. Municipal Medical College on the ground that the said rules which define the local students are unreasonable, illegal, illogical, irrational and violative of Articles 14 and 15 of the Constitution of India.
The cause for filing the said writ petition was that Rules 6 and 7 of the said rules prevented the students who are residents of Ahmedabad city but who had acquired their qualification for admission from the educational institutions situated within AUDA from being treated as local students The respondents in their companynter affidavit in the writ petition had companytended that the Medical College in question was managed and administered by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation and was also financed from the municipal funds.
