' Petitioner having appeared in the Intermediate Examination with Pre-Medical subjects conducted by the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Peshawar from the WAPDA Degree College, Terbela Dam for the annual session 1991, pursuance to the advertisement in the leading national dailies of 4th August, 1991, in anticipation of declaration of the result, applied for admission in the Ist Year M.B.,B.S. Class on the prescribed form to the Chairman, Admission Board for Medical Colleges in the Punjab in terms of para. 12(g) of the prospectus of the Government Medical Colleges in the Punjab for the session 1991-92 within the prescribed date and upon declaration of the result on 16- 9-1991 furnished the result card on 17-9-1991 securing 806 marks out of 1100 inclusive of 20 marks for N C.C., which didn't mature into reality for the belated furnishing of the results viz., beyond the notified last date fixed for receipt of the admission forms being 24-8-1991.
2. Legality whereof has been assailed by virtue of this Constitutional petition placing reliance on Muhammad Ziaul Haq v. Admission Board of Medical Colleges of Punjab and 8 others 1991 M LD 1648 to contend that candidates with lesser marks vis-a-vis the petitioner have been granted the admission.
3. To which learned Additional Advocate-General responded that para.. 12(g) of the prospectus has since been amended with a view to bringing it in consonance with the pronouncement made in the case being relied upon viz., the admission applications submitted in anticipation of declaration of the results could only be considered if the result cards were furnished by the notified last date, which in the instant case happened to be 24-8-1991.
4. Confronted therewith learned counsel for the petitioner grudged against the amendment being unfair, arbitrary, unjust, unreasonable and discriminatory.
5. Which I am afraid is misconceived because the admission process was set into motion by inviting applications through the press with particularity stipulating the last date for receipt of admission applications having synchronized it with declaration of the results by all the Boards of Intermediate and Secondary Education in the Punjab and Federal Board of Islamabad pursuant whereto the Petitioner too joined the contest by submitting the application in terms of the Prospectus of the Government Medical Colleges in the Punjab inter alia enshrining clause 12(a), 12(g) and 13(v), relevant text whereof for the sake of convenience of reference is reproduced herein below:- "12(a) Applications for admission to Ist Year M.B.,B.S. Class will be invited by an advertisement through the press. The date and the place of submission of applications will also be specified in such advertisement. Any application received after that date shall not be considered.
"12(g) Students of Punjab domicile residing outside the Province of Punjab and appearing from different Boards of F.Sc. (Pre-Medical) shall apply for admission in anticipation of declaration of their results (if not already declared) within the prescribed dates notified in the NewspapeRs, Such applications will only be considered if their results are produced upto the last date fixed for the receipt of admission applications. Applications/results received after the date so prescribed will not be considered.
13. "All applications from the candidates must be accompanied with photostat copies of the following certificates in uplicate duly attested.
(v) attested/photostat copies of detailed marks certificate of F.Sc., B.Sc of the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education/University."
6. Conjunctive reading whereof in unambiguous terms amplifies the phenol-menology of admission schedule commencing with submission of duly completed applications on prescribed forms inter alia requiring detailed marks certificate as a necessary appendix to be submitted before. The notified last date for receipt of admission applications with clear caveat that applications or results received subsequent to the date referred to supra would he beyond the pale of competitive consideration which requirement sounds to be fairly reasonable and fair with a view to conferring certainty to the admission process on competitive basis by a certain date read in juxtaposition with the pre-raended fluid state.
' Any view to the contrary in all probabilities is likely to unduly prolong the admission process and would also create sense of uncertainty to the disadvantage of eligible applicants.
7. Likewise, the contention as to discrimination is devoid of any substance because all similarly placed persons have been meted out a similar treatment.
' In view of the aforegoings, the petition being devoid of any substance is hereby dismissed with no order as to costs.