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(ii) MCI/State Medical Council, as the case may be, to grant permanent registration under section 25(4) and section 15 of the Act on the production  of valid certificates in proof of completion of compulsory internship for one year.

2. The private respondents are students who claim that they have completed the MBBS course in International Medical and Technological University (`IMT University' for short), a foreign University situated in Tanzania. The said university was established in Tanzania, by Vignan Education Foundation, an organization based in India. They fall under two categories. The first category are those who underwent the first two terms (Pre-clinical and Para clinical courses of 18 months each) between October 1998 and May 2002 at Katuri Medical College and Hospital, Guntur (which was, at that point of time, an unrecognized medical college) and the last term (the clinical course of 18 months) at Tanzania between June 2002 to November 2003/January 2004. The second category of students are those who underwent the entire course of study at Tanzania.

3. All these students, after successful completion of the course, underwent the Screening Test conducted by the National Board of Examinations as provided under the Screening Regulations. Some of the students were declined provisional registration and therefore could not do the internship in India and obtain permanent registration. Some of the  students were granted provisional registration, completed the internship, but were declined permanent registration. Some students, after securing provisional registration and completing the internship, were granted permanent registration, but subsequently their registrations were cancelled.

11. In the circumstances, we find no reason to interfere with the judgment of the High Court. We may, however, refer to an apprehension expressed by  the learned counsel for the MCI. He submitted that these petitioners have completed the course in 2003-2004 and many had undergone the screening test in 2005 and they have not been practicing thereafter and therefore their knowledge is likely to be rusted. This court had put a query to the MCI on 12.8.2010 as to whether MCI will be willing to consider the case of such students, for permanent registration on undergoing a special package of internship. Learned counsel for MCI, on instructions, submitted that if this Court upholds the judgment of the High Court, then the writ petitioners may be required to undergo three separate papers of pre-clinical, para-clinical and clinical medicine, each of 100 marks and thereafter again undergo a separate internship. As the Screening Regulations provide for a single paper, and all the writ petitioners have successfully completed the screening test, the students need not be required to pass three special papers again. However, in view of the long gap from the completion of the course, even those who have completed their internship will have to undergo internship afresh for one year to obtain permanent registration. On the other hand, those who have not done the internship in pursuance of the provisional registration shall be entitled to undergo the internship now and then seek permanent registration. To ensure that the students undergo such internship after provisional registration, the students concerned shall inform the MCI about  commencement and completion of internship.

13. Subject to the requirement that the first category students should undergo a fresh internship of one year in view of the long gap from the date of the degree and internship, these special leave petitions are dismissed, upholding the decision of the High Court.

14. All applications for impleadment by the similarly situated students (that is persons having medical degree from IMT University who have done the complete course at Tanzania) or part of the course in India and remaining part in Tanzania are allowed. They will be entitled to similar reliefs as granted above.