MUHAMMAD ANWAR vs ADMINISTRATOR, DOW MEDICAL COLLEGE, KARACHI — 1971 SCMR 79

Citation: 1971 SCMR 79

Court: Supreme Court of Pakistan

Year: 1970

Decision Date: 1970-08-19

Parties: MUHAMMAD ANWAR vs ADMINISTRATOR, DOW MEDICAL COLLEGE, KARACHI AND 3 Other

Headnotes

Case cited as 1971 SCMR 79

Judgment Text

Court Name: Supreme Court of Pakistan Judge(s): Waheeduddin Ahmad, Muhammad Yaqub Ali Khan Title:MUHAMMAD ANWAR vs ADMINISTRATOR, DOW MEDICAL COLLEGE, KARACHI AND 3 Other Case No.: Petition for Special Leave to Appeal No. K-49 of 1970 Date of Judgment:1970-08-19 Reported As: 1971 SCMR 79 Result: Petition dismissed Judgment ORDER MUHAMMAD YAQUB ALI, J.-The petitioner, a resident of Mudrad Memon Goth, district Karachi, was a candidate for admission to the Dow Medical College, Karachi, against two tagged rural seats allotted to Karachi district. However, as the marks obtained by him in the F. Sc. Examination were less than the marks obtained by the respondents 3 and 4, residents of the Model Colony, Malir, he was passed over against which he moved the High Court in writ jurisdiction basing his claim on the assertion that the Model Colony was not a tagged rural area of district Karachi within the Instructions for Application for Admission to First Year M. B. B. S. Class issued by the Provincial Government. It was contended that since the Model Colony was, in 1965, included in the Malir Cantt. It ceased to be a ruralarea and the respondents 3 and 4 were not eligible for admission to tagged rural seats. Reliance was placed on the definition of rural and urban areas in the Basic Democracies Order. The prayer was rejected by the High Court from which the petitioner now seeks leave to appeal. Rural area is defined in the Instructions as "a place where the population is less than…

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