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Saturday, Aug 07, 2004

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No stay in admission matters: apex court

By J. Venkatesan

NEW DELHI, AUG. 6. The Supreme Court today refused to stay the commencement of counselling tomorrow, pursuant to a Madras High Court judgment declining to interfere with the improvement examination system for Plus-Two students and treating improvement candidates on a par with regular students for medical admissions.

A Bench consisting of Justice Y.K. Sabharwal and Justice D.M. Dharmadhikar told counsel for the petitioner during `mention' time that in matters involving admission of students no stay could be granted.

Notice to government

The Bench, while declining to stay the operation of the August 2 judgment, however, issued notice to the Tamil Nadu Health Secretary, and the Secretary, MBBS/BDS Selection Committee on the special leave petition (SLP) filed by a student, G. Pavithra of Arantangi in Pudukottai district, seeking to quash the judgment.

Passing orders on a batch of writ petitions, the High Court had rejected the plea not to consider improvement candidates on a par with first appearance/regular/fresh candidates in the examination for selection to MBBS/BDS courses in government and self-financing colleges.

The petitioner contended that an improvement candidate took many academic years for his/her preparedness before joining medical courses; on the other hand, a regular candidate had to complete all exercise within one academic year. Treating both on a par was arbitrary and against the interests of regular candidates.

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