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MEDICAL COUNCIL OF INDIA versus CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE VELLORE & ORS.

Citation: [2016] 2 S.C.R. 872 · Decided: 11-04-2016 · Supreme Court of India · Bench: ANIL R. DAVE, A.K. SIKRI, R.K. AGRAWAL, ADARSH KUMAR GOEL, R. BANUMATHI · Disposal: Disposed off

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[2016] 2 S.C.R. 872 
MEDICAL COUNCIL OF INDIA 
v. 
CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE VELLORE & ORS. 
(Review Petition (C) Nos. 2159-2268 of 2013 etc.) 
APRIL 11, 2016 
[ANIL R. DAVE, A.K. SIKRI, R.K. AGRAWAL, ADARSII 
KUMAR GOEL AND R. BANUMATIII, JJ.I 
Review: Review petition before Supreme Court for reca/li11g 
C decision passed in Christian Medical College Case -Held: Judgment 
delivered in Christian Medical College needs reco11sideralion -
Reasons not stated in detail at this stage so that it does not 
prejudicially affect the hearing of the matters - For !he purpose. 
observations made in Sheonandan is relevant that if the reviell' berv:h 
D of the apex court were required to give reasons. the review bench 
would have to discuss the case fully and elaborately and expose 
what according to it constitutes an error in the reasoning of the 
original bench and would inevitably result in pre judgment of the 
case and prejudice ils re hearing- Jn Christian Medical College case 
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some binding precedents were not considered and more particularly 
there was no discussion among the 111e111bers of the bench before 
the pronouncement of the judgment - Therefore, review petition 
allowed and Christian Medical College Case recalled with direction 
to hear the matter afresh. 
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Christian Medical College Ve/lore & Ors. vs. Union of 
India & Ors. 2013 (7) SCR 908 : (2014) 2 SCC 305: 
Kamlesh Verma vs. Mayawati and Others 2013 (11) SCR 
25 : (2013) 8 SCC 320; Union of India vs. Na111it 
Sharma 2013 (13) SCR 96 : (2013) 10 SCC 359; 
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Sheonandan Paswan vs. State of Bihar and others 1987 
(1) SCR 702 : (1987) 1 SCC 288 - referred to. 
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Case Law Reference 
2013 (7) SCR 908 
20.13 (11) SCR 25 
referred to 
referred to 
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Para 1 
Para4 
MEDICAL COUNCIL OF INDIA v. CHRISTIAN MEDICAL 
873 
COLLEGE VELLORE 
2013 (13) SCR 96 
1987 (1) SCR 702 
referred to 
referred to 
Para4 
Para4 
CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION: Review Petition (C) Nos. 
2 I 59-2268of2013 and Review Petition (C) Nos. 2048-2157 of20 I 3 in 
Transferred Case (C) Nos. 98-I05, I07-I08, I IO-I39, 142, 144-145 of 
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20I2& 1-5, 7-25,28-49,53,58-73, 75-76,& 107-108of2013. 
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WITH. 
Review Petition (C) No. 1956 of 2013 in T.C. (C) No. I 0 I of 
2012 
Fromthe Judgment and Order dated 18.07 .. 2013 of the Hon'ble c 
Court in T. C. (C) NO. 98 OF 20I2. 
Vikas Singh, Sr. Adv., Gaurav Sharma, Ms. Deepeika Kalia, 
Dhawal Mohan, Ms. Amandeep Kaur, Prateek Bhatia, Kapeesh Seth, 
Ms. Vara Gaur, Prashant Bhushan, Advs. for the Petitioner. 
Ms. Pinky Anand, ASG, K.K. Venugopal, Shashi Kiran Shetty, 
Dr. Rajeev Dhawan, Rakesh Dwivedi, B. Adi Narayana Rao, V. Giri, 
Subramonium Prasad, Ajit Kumar Sinha, Sr. Advs., Ms. Rekha Pandey, 
Ajay Sharma, R.K. Rathore, R.S. Nagar, Amit Sharma, S.S. Rawat. 
Karan Seth, Sanchit Kumar, Akash Jindal, (For D.S. Mahra), Sharan 
Thakur, Vijay Kumar Paradeshi, Ms. Fara Fathima, (For Ramesh Babu 
M.R.), Ranjit B. Raut, (For Ms. Bina Gupta}, Ms. Hetu Arora Sehi, 
Naveen R. Nath, Ms. L.M. Bhat, Krishna Srinivasan, E.R. Kumar, Ms. 
Geethi Aara, Abhinay, Ms. S. Lakshmi Iyer, Ms. Apoorva Garg, Ms. 
Sansriti Pathak, (For Mis. Parekh & Co.), Rakesh K. Sharma, Ms. lyangar 
Sheekharanjani A., Ms. Sangita Chauhan, B. Balaji, Utkarsh Srivastava, 
Ashmeet Singh, Sharan Thakur, Vijay Kumar Paradeshi, Ms. Fara 
Fathima, (For Dr. Sushi] Balwada), Ashwarya Sinha, Tara Chandra 
Sharma, Ms. Neelam Sharma, Rajeev Sharma, Nishant R. 
Katneshwarkar, Arpit Rai, V.G Pragasam, S. Prabhu Ramasubramanian, 
Abdhesh Choudhary, Rajiv Ranjan Dwivedi, C.S.N. Mohan Rao, A. 
Ramesh, Syed Ahmad Naqvi, Ms. Sh ii pi Gupta, Lakshmi Raman Singh, 
Guntur Prabhakar, Anil Kumar Mishra-I, Ravindra Keshavrao Adsure, 
K.K. Mani, Nimimesh Dubey, G.B. Sathe, P:N. Puri, Advs. for the 
Respondents. 
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SUPREME COURT REPORTS 
[2016] 2 S.C.R. 
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The following Order of the Court was delivered 
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ORDER 
I. These review petitions have been filed against the judgment of 
this Court dated 18'" July, 2013 passed in Christian Medical College Vellore 
& Ors. Vs. Union of India & Ors. reported in (2014) 2 SCC 305. The 
review petitions were placed before a Three-Judge Bench and notices 
were issued on 23" October, 2013 and thereafter, it was brought to the 
notice of the Bench that Civil Appeal No.4060/2009 and connected 
matters involving an identical issue, had been referred to a Five-Judge 
Bench. Accordingly, on 21" January, 2016, these review petitions were 
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ordered to be heard by a Fiv

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