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CBCI Society allowed to fill seats in its colleges

J. Venkatesan

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday permitted the CBCI Society for Medical Education running St. John's Medical College and other institutions to fill all seats in MBBS, super speciality and nursing (both undergraduate and postgraduate) courses for the academic year 2005-06.

A three-Judge Bench comprising Justice Y.K. Sabharwal, Justice D.M. Dharmadhikari and Justice B.N. Srikrishna passed this order as an interim measure.

Since counselling for admissions based on the Common Entrance Test (CET) begins on Wednesday, senior counsel for the CBCI Harish Salve urged the court to pass an order similar to the one passed last year permitting all seats (both 50 per cent government and 50 per cent management quotas) by the institutions themselves on the basis of a fair and transparent admission procedure.

Counsel for State Sanjay Hegde opposed the grant of permission to the institutions to fill all the seats. He said the State should be allowed to allot at least 25 per cent of the seats through the CET. But the Bench said as an interim measure, the order passed last year will continue for this year. The applicant submitted that the colleges under the CBCI have adopted a procedure to admit all students for 40 years (except during 2003-2004) and they must be allowed to continue the admissions for all the seats. It pointed out that when the Karnataka Government issued the admission brochure to the institutions of the applicant society.

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