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Educational Quota Writs
Prerogative Writs & Extraordinary Remedies
Definition
Writ petitions challenging state reservation policies, seat allocations, institutional preferences, and qualifying percentiles in national medical and engineering entrance examinations (NEET, JEE).
Example
In Neil Aurelio Nunes v. Union of India, petitioners filed an Article 32 writ petition challenging the constitutional validity of the 27% OBC and 10% EWS reservations in the All India Quota for NEET-PG medical admissions.