IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.5380 of 2007 DR.SUSHANT DAS GUPTA Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS ----------- 2. 11/08/2008 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner, learned counsels for the Patna University as well as Medical Council of India. In this writ application, petitioner has prayed for quashing of Annexure-3 whereby the Assistant Registrar of Patna University has informed the Dean, Faculty of Medicine, Patna university that the petitioner is required to apply for fresh registration in the three years Course of M.S.(Eye) as provided in new existing regulation for M.D./M.S. Examination, and for a direction to respondent no.4 to allow the petitioner to submit his Thesis and appear in ensuing M.S.(E.N.T.) Examination in the course completed for the Sessions 1988-1990 of Patna Medical College & Hospital. Upon own showing of the petitioner, he was admitted in the course in 1988 and completed in 1993. Case of the petitioner is that during this period petitioner remained ill, and therefore, he could not submit his Thesis. Now the University has refused permission to the - 2 - petitioner to submit his Thesis and to appear in the examination in 2003. Petitioner filed this writ application in 2007. Learned counsel for the respondents has taken a stand that the petitioner has approached this Court after fourteen years. He submits that the regulation for pursing the course of M.D./M.S. has undergone a change and therefore, the petitioner cannot be allowed to submit his Thesis prepared on the basis of old course and to appear in the examination of new course. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner was all through ill for fourteen years and therefore, he could not submit his Thesis during this period. This submission of learned counsel for the petitioner on the face of it is not acceptable. The submission of learned counsel for the respondents has substance. Therefore, I do not find any merit in this writ application. This writ application is accordingly dismissed. Pradeep/ (J. N. Singh, J.)