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All seats under management quota: issue for larger Bench

By Our Legal Correspondent

NEW DELHI, JULY 27. The Supreme Court on Monday referred to a larger Bench the issue of whether unaided self-financing professional colleges could fill all the seats under the "management quota" by adopting their own admission procedure.

A Bench comprising Justice Ruma Pal and Justice Arun Kumar, referred the matter to be decided by a larger Bench when it was raised by the CBCI Society for Medical Education, Karnataka, challenging the notification issued by the State Government fixing 50 per cent seats for the Government quota and 50 per cent for the management quota.

The Bench had on July 15 referred to a larger Bench, issues of fixation of quotas by the State Governments for admission to private professional institutions and the holding of a common entrance test for admission to such institutions in the light of varying interpretations of the judgment in the Islamic Academy Education case given by various States and private institutions.

Hearing on July 30

The Bench, after hearing senior counsel, K. Parasaran on Monday, posted the petition filed by the CBCI Society for further hearing to July 30 to decide the question of interim relief.

The petitioner submitted that it approached the committee appointed by the Karnataka Government seeking permission to fill up the management quota by admitting 100 per cent of its intake, notwithstanding the seat-sharing notification issued by the Government.

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