Lakhs of students in the nation work hard and toil to obtain admissions in educational institutions based on merit, and it is about time that backdoor entry there, especially medical colleges, should end, the Delhi High Court has stated.
However, the Supreme Court has ordered that admissions to all government and private medical institutions be done through a centralized counseling mechanism based on the NEET exam results. As a result, in April 2017, the Medical Council of India (MCI) issued letters of release to the five petitioners, and numerous additional messages were made after that, but neither the students nor the medical institution paid attention to them.
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The college continued to recognize the petitioners as students, allowing them to enroll in classes, take exams, and advance in their careers. The five petitioners eventually filed a case, which was denied by the sole court, requesting quashing of the MCI’s discharge letters and order that they be allowed to continue their studies at the medical college as normal medical students.
They filed an appeal against the order of the single judge. The appeal was also denied by a bench of Justices Vipin Sanghi and Jasmeet Singh, who said it lacked substance. It went on to say that the petitioners are solely responsible for the situation they have found themselves in. Even though their writ petition had no interim orders in their favor, they proceeded to attend the course certainly at their own risk,” the court stated.
Despite the MCI’s discharge of the petitioners, Advocate T Singhdev, representing the MCI, stated that the matter was not addressed by the institution or the students as early as April 26, 2017, and that they continued to disregard it despite numerous conversations. He further stated that the petitioners did not seek an interim injunction from the court.
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Despite this, they continued to accept admissions and take exams at the institution, which they did at their own risk and could not claim equity in their favor. According to the court, if the medical institution had notified the DME of the vacancy post on time, the DME would have undertaken further counseling and forwarded names on merit based on the NEET test conducted in 2016.
