Students not at fault for exam delay: MP HC on medicos plea

Students not at fault for exam delay: MP HC on medicos plea

TNN | Jan 26, 2023, 10.48 AM IST

BHOPAL/JABALPUR: Holding that students are not responsible for delay in organising exam and subsequent declaration of results, a division bench of MP high court allowed three petitioner medical students to appear in the Pre-PG exam without completing one year of internship, a prerequisite to appear in the pre-PG medical exam.

The court also issued notices to respondents in the case.

The petitioner Shreya Jain and two other students said that they had appeared in the MBBS final year exam organised by MP Medical University in the month of May, 2022.

Result of the exam was declared on July 23, 2023. They were required to finish one year of internship to appear in the pre-PS exam but their internship will end on July 25 and by that time pre-PG test would be conducted.

Appearing for the petitioners, advocate Aditya Sanghi said that according to notification of the National Medical Commission (NMC) and the union government, one-year internship by MBBS students should be done by June 30 but since MBBS result Of the petitioners was declared late, they would not be able to appear in the pre-PG test.

Giving an interim relief to the petitioners, the bench of chief justice R V Malimath and Justice Vushal Mishra allowed them to appear in the pre-PG test.

The court further issued notices to the union health ministry, National Medical Commission, National Board of Examination in Medical Science and MP Medical University seeking a response to the petition.