12-08-2025
Both the writ petitions being filed with identical causes of action are taken up for
an analogous hearing and are disposed of by this common order.
In the first writ petition being WP(C)/6212/2018, there are 6 nos. of petitioners
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whereas in the second writ petition, i.e. WP(C)/3528/2019, there is one petitioner.
As per the facts projected, all the petitioners were admitted in the Jorhat Medical
College in the MBBS Course under the Schedule Caste (SC) Category. While they were
pursuing their course, FIR was lodged by an organization, namely, All Assam Schedule
Caste Students Union whereby it was stated that the claim of the petitioners to fall
under SC category was false. Based on the said FIR, police case was lodged and at
that stage, the petitioners had approached this Court.