In Brief
A charitable trust applied to establish a medical college in Dehradun with 150 MBBS seats. After initial permission was granted for 2016-17, the Ministry revoked it in August 2017 citing deficiencies in faculty, residents, land ownership documentation and OPD attendance. The Court found the Ministry's reconsideration was mechanical and failed to engage with the petitioner's explanations and the Revenue Authority's judgment confirming land ownership. The Court quashed the revocation order and, invoking Article 142, directed the authorities to permit 150 admissions for 2017-18 through central counselling, holding that the substantive merits favoured the college and public interest was served by preventing seat wastage in medical education."
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