In Brief
These petitions challenged institutional preferences in post-graduate medical education admissions under the 2000 Regulations, arguing that the introduction of NEET (National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test) as a national merit-based examination changed the constitutional position previously upheld in Saurabh Chaudri (2003). The Supreme Court found the constitutional issue sufficiently significant to require a larger bench hearing and directed the Chief Justice to refer the matters accordingly, noting that NEET's introduction presented a materially different question from what was decided in the earlier precedent.
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