HUMERA SATWAT YUSUF vs THE GOVERNMENT OF THE PUNJAB THROUGH THE — 1959 PLD 134

Citation: 1959 PLD 134

Court: Lahore High Court

Year: 1970

Decision Date: 1970-12-31

Parties: HUMERA SATWAT YUSUF vs THE GOVERNMENT OF THE PUNJAB THROUGH THE JUDGMENT

Headnotes

Case cited as PLD 1959 SC 134

Judgment Text

Court Name: Lahore High Court Judge(s): Nasim Hasan Shah, Muhammad Akram Title:HUMERA SATWAT YUSUF vs THE GOVERNMENT OF THE PUNJAB THROUGH THE JUDGMENT Reported As: PLD 1971 Lahore 641 Result: Petitions dismissed Judgment JUDGMENT NASIM HASSAN SHAH, J.--This judgment will dispose of four petitions instituted under Art. 98 of the Constitution of 1962 moved by four female students. By these petitions certain restrictions imposed by Government in the matter of admissions of girl students to the various Medical Colleges of this Province have been called in question. Since the questions falling for determination are similar in all these four petitions, they are being disposed of together. 2. The petitioner in the first petition (W. P. No, 1605/70) is Humera Satwat Yusuf, who is stated to have passed the Intermediate pre-Medical Examination held by the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Lahore, in 1970 in First Division obtaining an aggregate of 687 marks. She is desirous of joining a Medical College in the Punjab in order to qualify to be a medical practitioner, like her father (Dr. Rauf Yusuf) and her grand-father (Col. Muhammad Yusuf) but she is being prevented from doing so on account of the decision of the Government not to admit more than 56 girls in all in the various Medical Colleges of the Punjab (Fatima Jinnah Medical College Lahore-48, King Edward Medical College, Lahore-4, and Nishtar Medical College, Multan), out of which seven are reserved for special…

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