S.N.Aggarwal, J. - (1.) The petitioner passed +2 examination in 1999. He appeared in Punjab Medical Entrance Examination (in short PMET) conducted by Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar in June,2000. He appeared in the first counselling held in July,2000 but could not succeed. However, he was selected for admission to BAMS Course in the second counselling held in January,2001 and got admission in Guru Nanak Ayurvedic Medical College & Hospital, Muktsar.
(2.) The classes in the main batch of BAMS commenced with effect from August/September,2000 but for the students including petitioner admitted in the second counselling i.e. supplementary batch the classes commenced in January,2001. The petitioner appeared in the first professional examination conducted by Baba Farid University of Health Sciences in May/June,2002 and cleared all the papers. He appeared in the second professional examination held in November/December,2003 but got re-appear in two papers i.e.(i) Rog Vigyan and (ii) Dravya Guna. As per the provisions of the University Ordinance, the petitioner could qualify these re-appear papers in six consecutive chances but at the same time, he could join the classes of third professional year. However, under the Rules, he was debarred to sit in the third professional examination till he cleared all the re- appear papers of previous years.
(3.) The petitioner re-appeared in both the re-appear papers of second professional examination in May/June, 2004 but qualified only in one paper i.e.Draya Guna. He could not clear the second paper of reappear namely Rog Vigyan. He again undertook the re-appear examination of this paper in November/December,2004 but could not succeed. He again appeared to qualify this paper of Rog Vigyan in April/May,2005 and cleared the said paper. In January. 2001, when the petitioner got admission, the duration of first professional course was 18 months so also for the second professional course but for the third profession course, the duration was 24 months and thereafter six months were allocated for internship. Calculated with this schedule, the final examination of third professional course was to take place in November/December,2005.;