P&H: Quashes Chandigarh MBBS merit list for excluding OBC "migrant" candidate

(i) Admission -- Admission to MBBS course under the U.T. Chandigarh Pool for session 2026-2027 was governed by prospectus, and respondents could not exclude an otherwise eligible OBC candidate by labelling him as a “migrant” when the prospectus contained no such bar - Revised provisional...

(ii) Words and Phrases -- Rules of the game -- Means thereby criteria for selection, cannot be modified in middle or after process of selection has begun - Prospectus constitutes declared norm by which eligibility, scrutiny, preparation of merit and admission have to be regulated,...

(iii) Admission -- Clause A-3 of the prospectus required candidates for U.T. Chandigarh Pool seats to satisfy the prescribed eligibility criteria, and Clause A-7 required an OBC candidate to submit the prescribed OBC certificate issued by the competent authority - There was no requirement that...

(iv) Admission -- Prospectus - Government instructions dated 08.04.1994 could not be read into prospectus, as doing so would amount to modifying prospectus and introducing new eligibility condition after admission process had commenced - Such a condition could be incorporated only for future academic sessions...