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3.The petitioner joined BHMS course with the fifth respondent college. The said course is for the duration of 5-1/2 years with 4-1/2 years study and one year of house surgency. She passed her final examination of BHMS degree in August, 2008 and received her provisional certificate on 20.10.2008. She got herself registered in the internship in the same institute on 03.11.2008. During internship training, the fourth respondent college had prescribed a dress code for women internees stating that Saree was the only dignified dress and that other dresses were not permitted. The petitioners request for wearing Salwar Kameez was not considered. While she attended duty one day with Salwar Kameez, she was denied training from 11.11.2008. Therefore, she filed a writ petition being W.P.No.5981 of 2009 seeking for a direction to forbear respondents 4 and 5 from imposing the dress code without any authority and to allow her to complete internship by wearing Salwar Kameez and Chudidar. The said writ petition came to be allowed by an order of this court dated 30.6.2009 (since reported in 2009 (7) MLJ 253 [V.Kamalam Vs. Tamil Nadu Dr.M.G.R.Medical University and others]). This court held that this matter should have been settled between the management and students and that prescription of dress code was without any legal basis. Therefore, respondents 4 and 5 were directed not to insist upon the petitioner to wear only Saree and to permit her to wear Salwar Kameez and Chudidar and to attend internship. It was only after the order of this court, she was allowed to continue her internship from 16.07.2009 and that too they started ill-treating the petitioner ever since she came back to the college. Because of denial of doing internship on the basis of some unreasonable restriction, the petitioner could not continue internship form 11.11.2008 to 15.07.2009. She had completed her internship only on 15.07.2010 whereas her batch mates had completed it in November, 2009. Even after completion of internship, she was not given the second provisional certificate for course completion inspite of her several requests. Her juniors who have completed internship after 15.7.2010 had received the second provisional certificate and registered it with the third respondent council. Thus she was not able to register for practice and to apply for degree certificate even after a lapse of more than six months after completion of internship.

4.She filed another writ petition in W.P.No.1204 of 2011 seeking for a direction to issue second provisional certificate and to grant her seniority in the registration of BHMS with effect from the date of completion of internship. During the pendency of the writ petition, she received the provisional certificate and compulsory rotatory internship certificate on 04.04.2011, i.e., almost after nine months after completion of the course. This court in that writ petition directed the petitioner to make an application for registration of her degree based on internship certificate within one week and on such application being made, the council was directed to register her name from the date of completion of internship, i.e. 15.7.2010. The petitioner submitted her application on 12.04.2011 pursuant to the order of this court. The third respondent based on internship certificate issued by the college and based on the representation, registered her name only prospectively from 19.04.2011. They also filed a writ appeal against the said order and the writ appeal is still pending.