Harish Verma And Ors vs Ajay Srivastava And Anr

The Supreme Court upheld the validity of the first proviso to Regulation 9 of the Post Graduate Medical Education Regulations, 2000, which sets minimum qualifying marks for postgraduate medical courses at 50% for general candidates and 40% for SC/ST/OBC candidates, as per Section 33 and Section 20 of the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956. The Court ruled that the regulations are constitutional and applicable to in-service candidates, affirming that the selection process must adhere to the established merit criteria. Consequently, the writ petitions challenging the regulations were dismissed.