S.S. Saron, J. - (1.) This appeal has been filed by appellant - Apoorva Kalia against the judgment and order dated 02.11.2015, passed by the learned Single Judge in CWP No. 21489 of 2015 titled 'Apoorva Kalia versus Baba Farid University of Health Sciences, Faridkot and others', whereby the petition of the appellant seeking admission to the MBBS/BDS Course for the session 2015 in the reserved category of border area has been dismissed.
(2.) The appellant applied for admission to the MBBS/BDS Course and appeared in the Pre -Medical Entrance Test ('PMET' - for short), 2015 being conducted by the Baba Farid University of Health Sciences, Faridkot ('University' - for short). She secured 492 marks out of 800. She applied for admission to MBBS/BDS Course under general category (Code -11) and also in the border area category (Code -15). Her rank in the open merit was 2320, while that in the border area category was 154. Four seats were reserved for the border area category against which four candidates namely Shivam Singla (respondent No. 3) with PMET rank 171 and border area rank 14, Simran Aneja (respondent No. 2) with PMET rank 312 and border area rank 20, Angel Dhingra (respondent No. 4) with PMET rank 319 and border area rank 22 and one Smarth Gupta (not a party) with PMET rank 337 and border area rank 23 were granted admissions.
(3.) The case set up by the learned counsel for the appellant is that Simran Aneja, Angel Dhingra (respondents No. 2 and 4) and Smarth Gupta (not a party) had secured higher rank in merit in the open general category than the last general category candidate. Therefore, according to him, in terms of notification dated 30.03.2015, which provides the criteria for admissions, the reserved category candidates were to be counted towards admission in the general category or open merit. The said three candidates namely Simran Aneja, Angel Dhingra (respondents No. 2 and 4) and Smarth Gupta (not a party) were to be admitted against the general category seats. In this manner, three seats of border area category were liable to be filled from the students of the border area category only.;