[Writ Petition (C) No. 598 of 2013]. The present litigation exposits a sad sad scenario. It is sad because a chaos has crept in the lives of some students and it is further sad as the State of Goa and its functionaries have allowed ingress of systemic anarchy throwing propriety to the winds possibly harbouring the attitude of utter indifference and nurturing an incurable propensity to pave the path of deviancy. The context is admission to Post Graduate courses in a single Government medical college at Goa. The insensitivity of the authorities administering medical college admissions was seriously decried by a three-Judge Bench in Convenor, MBBS/BDS Selection Board and others v. Chandan Mishra and others[1] and further echoed in Medical Council of India v. Madhu Singh and others[2]. The Court in Chandan Mishra (supra) had approvingly reproduced a sentence from the decision of the High Court that proclaimed in sheer anguish: "Shakespeare in Othello has written "Chaos is come again". The saga of anguish continues with constant consistency. In Asha v. Pt. B.D. Sharma University of Health Sciences and others[3] a two-Judge Bench commenced the judgment thus: - "Admission to the medical courses (MBBS and BDS) has consistently been a subject of judicial scrutiny and review for more than three decades.
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