Madras high court helps medical student join Jipmer

Madras high court helps medical student join Jipmer

Sep 12, 2020, 02.34 PM IST

PUDUCHERRY: The Madras high court came to the rescue of a medical student in securing admission for post-doctoral certificate course (PDCC) in paediatric oncology in Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (Jipmer) after a private medical college refused to return his original certificates despite two directions from the court.

Justice N Anand Venkatesh, while restraining Jipmer from cancelling the student's allotment in PDCC, passed an interim order directing the institute to provisionally admit him in the course. The judge passed the interim direction following a petition filed by Alpoor Tharun Tej, who had completed MD (paediatrics) at Aarupadai Veedu Medical College and Hospital (AVMCH) in Puducherry, a constituent college of Vinayaga Missions Research Foundation (VMRF), a deemed university. Advocate Stalin Abhimanyu appeared on behalf of the student.

Tej had earlier accused the college of refusing to return his certificates unless he paid 'exorbitant' fees over and above the fees he had already paid. The high court had directed AVMCH to return all certificates of Tej after getting an affidavit from him declaring that he would pay the fees fixed by the fee committee constituted by the Puducherry government.

However, AVMCH refused to honour the high court order and insisted on the student to furnish a bank guarantee for balance fees of Rs 57.6 lakh in favour of VMRF until the fee committee fixed the fees.

The student again approached the high court, which declared that 'furnishing a bank guarantee is not within the scope of the orders passed by this court' earlier and directed the AVMCH to abide by the interim orders. AVMCH yet again refused to honour the high court's order.

The time offered by Jipmer to the student to submit his certificates and join PDCC expired on September 10. The student approached the high court highlighting his plight that on the one hand AVMCH refused to issue his original certificates despite two directions from the court and on the other hand Jipmer fixed September 10 as the last date to submit his original certificates to join PDCC and praying for an appropriate direction to Jipmer. The court directed Jipmer to admit the student in PDCC.