Allow students to take exams, HC tells RGUHS

Allow students to take exams, HC tells RGUHS

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Bengaluru:09.10.2021

In huge relief for 20 medical students enrolled in different colleges in Karnataka, the high court directed Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS) to allow them to take their examinations later, if, for any reason including Covid-19, they could not appear for them when scheduled.

The exams commenced from September 20, but the high court ruled they will have to be conducted subsequently for these students.

Justice R Devdas issued this order, while disposing of petitions filed by Pani Yapung, a student from Arunachal Pradesh and 19 others. All the petitioners are from different states, including Kerala.

“Having gone through the advisory issued by the [state Covid-19] Technical Advisory Committee (TAC), this court finds that it is possible that some students arriving from Kerala may have tested positive,” Justice Devdas said in his order.

The judge added: “It is also possible that students other than those arriving from Kerala may also have tested positive. Therefore, under such circumstances, the respondent university [RGUHS] had issued a notification earlier enabling such students who were issued hall tickets but were unable to attend examinations to write examinations subsequently.”