MP court stops CBSE from rejecting NEET applications
TIMES NEWS NETWORK 25.03.2018
Jabalpur/Bhopal: MP high court on Saturday restrained CBSE from rejecting NEET applications from candidates, who have lost a year between Class XI and XII.
A division bench comprising Justice Ravi Shankar Jha and Justice Rajeev Kumar Dubey passed this interim order in the course of hearing a writ petition filed by NEET candidate Ayushman Shrivastava, who passed Class XI in 2012 and Class XII in 2014. The CBSE counsel told the court that a similar case was pending before Delhi high court, which has passed an interim order.MP HC then asked all the parties involved to inform about the Delhi court’s decision in two weeks and asked CBSE, which conducts NEET, not to reject the petitioner’s application till then.
Ayushman’s counsel contended in court that CBSE’s condition of mandatory two years’ regular and continuous study of physics, chemistry, biology/bio-technology at 10+2 level for NEET candidates is “unreasonable and against Article 14 of Constitution.” This criterion, applied on the basis of a Medical Council of India notification, is superfluous as NEET has enough safeguards to ensure that only deserving candidates get a chance to appear, the counsel argued.
Ayushman, a resident of Panna in MP, skipped a year in his 10+2 because he was preparing in Kota for NEET. His counsel pointed out that in Delhi, candidate Anshul Aggrawal had challenged the same clause in high court. Delhi HC issued an interim order on February 26, 2018, asking CBSE not to reject the applications submitted by the petitioner. In response to the order, CBSE has given relaxation in the essential required qualifications on March 1, 2018, and issued a public notice but it does not apply to students who have not passed Class XI and XII in successive years, which again is “against the principle of equality enshrined in the Constitution”, said Ayushman’s counsel.
TIMES NEWS NETWORK 25.03.2018
Jabalpur/Bhopal: MP high court on Saturday restrained CBSE from rejecting NEET applications from candidates, who have lost a year between Class XI and XII.
A division bench comprising Justice Ravi Shankar Jha and Justice Rajeev Kumar Dubey passed this interim order in the course of hearing a writ petition filed by NEET candidate Ayushman Shrivastava, who passed Class XI in 2012 and Class XII in 2014. The CBSE counsel told the court that a similar case was pending before Delhi high court, which has passed an interim order.MP HC then asked all the parties involved to inform about the Delhi court’s decision in two weeks and asked CBSE, which conducts NEET, not to reject the petitioner’s application till then.
Ayushman’s counsel contended in court that CBSE’s condition of mandatory two years’ regular and continuous study of physics, chemistry, biology/bio-technology at 10+2 level for NEET candidates is “unreasonable and against Article 14 of Constitution.” This criterion, applied on the basis of a Medical Council of India notification, is superfluous as NEET has enough safeguards to ensure that only deserving candidates get a chance to appear, the counsel argued.
Ayushman, a resident of Panna in MP, skipped a year in his 10+2 because he was preparing in Kota for NEET. His counsel pointed out that in Delhi, candidate Anshul Aggrawal had challenged the same clause in high court. Delhi HC issued an interim order on February 26, 2018, asking CBSE not to reject the applications submitted by the petitioner. In response to the order, CBSE has given relaxation in the essential required qualifications on March 1, 2018, and issued a public notice but it does not apply to students who have not passed Class XI and XII in successive years, which again is “against the principle of equality enshrined in the Constitution”, said Ayushman’s counsel.
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