As per case facts, the Petitioner completed MD (Anaesthesiology) over 1095 days across three institutions due to counselling reshuffling. He secured AIR 4 in the INI-SS exam for DM Critical ... Care Medicine but his candidature was cancelled by Respondent No. 1 (AIIMS) for having fragmented residency experience, arguing it needed to be from a single institute. The Petitioner challenged this, stating no rule mandates a single institute. The question arose whether the mandatory 1095 days of residency tenure could be deemed complete even if obtained piecemeal from different institutions, especially when the prospectus did not explicitly state a single-institute requirement. Finally, the Court ruled that the Petitioner's fragmented tenure, totalling 1095 days in the same discipline, met the prospectus requirements. The rejection was quashed, emphasizing that eligibility conditions must be clear and merit must prevail over technicalities.