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By Our Legal Correspondent
NEW DELHI, NOV. 16. The Supreme Court today upheld the decision of the Centre that students who had obtained medical degrees from the former Union of Soviet Socialistic Republics must clear a screening test to be conducted by the Medical Council of India for practising as doctors in India. A three-judge Bench, comprising the Chief Justice R.C. Lahoti, Justice Ashok Bhan and Justice G.P. Mathur, dismissed a batch of petitions filed by doctors who got their degrees from medical colleges in Russia and other countries, which were part of the erstwhile USSR. Justice Bhan, writing the judgment for the Bench, said the screening test, in future, would be conducted as per the guidelines approved by the Ministry of Health during a meeting held on June 13. The petitioners had contended that over 5,000 doctors had undergone studies for six years in the medical colleges and they should not be subjected to any further test for qualifying to practice in India. But the MCI submitted that under Section 13 of the MCI Act, any person obtaining a medical degree from a foreign country had to pass the screening test conducted by it to enable him to practise in India.
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