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11.Issue notice.

12.Mr. Ahluwalia and Mr. Singhdev accept notice on behalf of respondent nos. 1 & 2 respectively. While praying for time to file counter affidavit, Mr. Singhdev vehemently urges that the present writ petition is not maintainable as the petitioner had already chosen to approach the Madras High Court by assailing the respondent no.2/NMC's order dated 27.08.2021, whereby it had decided to defer the petitioner's request for enhancement of seats from 150 to 250, which request was made on 12.11.2020. He therefore contends that once the Madras High Court had, in view of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic opined that, no direction for inspection of the purportedly enhanced infrastructure of the petitioner was warranted at the time of issuing the order, the petitioner could not have subsequently approached this Court in respect of its request dated 12.11.2020. He further submits that even otherwise, once the impugned orders are based on the decision dated 30.07.2021 of the Madras High Court in W.P.(MD) No. 17263/2020, the petitioner ought to have approached the same Court. In its aforesaid decision, the Madras High Court had observed that the State government as well as the National Medical Commission should refrain from granting approval to any medical college in and around Chennai, or any other city/union territory like Puducherry, which had already got enough medical colleges to serve its population. He thus, contends that, the respondent no.2/NMC was justified in rejecting the petitioners' request for enhancing the seats for intake of students in the MBBS course, as the same would amount to opening a new medical college for 100 students.