Candidates Completed Medical Courses Act, 2012 (for short ‘the Act 2012’) was gazetted on 24.07.2015 as Karnataka Act No.26 of 2015. The avowed purpose of the enactment was for providing compulsory service by candidates who had completed medical courses, before award of degrees or post graduate degrees or diplomas. When the original Bill was promulgated, the stated purpose was to ensure availability of rural service training in Government Primary Health Centers and Government Hospitals. The Act having been reserved for the assent of the President of India under Article 254 (2) of the Constitution received the assent of the President. A spate of challenge were raised to the Statute and by interim order dated 06.10.2015 in W.P.No.40566/2015 and connected matters, this Court stayed the operation of the Principal Act along with all further proceedings, orders, actions, notifications including the Rules etc., pursuant to the Act. Degree certificates were directed to be issued to the students, however they were made subject to result of the writ petitions, with an undertaking that if the writ petitions fail, the petitioners would comply with the provisions of the Act. The State Legislature, presumably, taking
