High court refuses to entertain plaints over MBBS admissions

High court refuses to entertain plaints over MBBS admissions

SagarKumar.Mutha@timesgroup.com

Hyderabad: 10.01.2021

The Telangana high court has made it clear it will not examine complaints against non-implementation of the Article 371-D and the Presidential Order in the ongoing MBBS admissions because of the amendment carried out to the provisions of the Medical Council of India Act. It also said there are clear pronouncements from the high court and the Supreme Court on its applicability.

A bench of Chief Justice Hima Kohli and Justice MS Ramachandra Rao said this while hearing a petition filed by G Apoorva, A Harshita, and others complaining about procedural irregularities in implementing the existing rules of admissions. The bench, however, assured the petitioners that it would examine the issue of less meritorious getting seats to the detriment of the more meritorious, only if the persons likely to be affected on account of this litigation were made respondents here.

The contention of the petitioners is that the more meritorious students from Telangana who could gain seats in the unreserved 15 percent are being shown in the 85 percent local quota and this is adversely affecting the Telangana students. The bench sought a counter from the Kaloji University within two weeks from now and posted the case to February 19.

The Kaloji varsity has been saying that it could only effect changes in tune with the options given by the meritorious students. If they settle with the initial allotments and do not apply for any change in the subsequent counselling, the varsity would not be in a position to affect the changes on its own, the university said in a press release while explaining its case.

Additional advocate general J Ramachandra Rao responded to a query from the bench about the applicability of the Presidential Order given the legal pronouncements and explained that the university has been implementing it as the AP Reorganisation Act asks them to implement it till 2023. There were certain subsequent court orders too clarifying the position in this regard, he said.