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Court permits medical colleges to conduct counselling

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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday permitted the Karnataka Private Medical Colleges Association to proceed with counselling for admission to postgraduate medical, dental and diploma courses in unaided self-financing colleges.

A Bench of Justice K.G. Balakrishnan and Justice P.P. Naoleklar while passing this order, however, said the association should not make the actual allotment of students to the colleges concerned. The Bench directed the matter to be listed for further hearing on April 13.

The Bench passed this order on an application filed by the association seeking permission to announce the results of the Common Entrance Test (CET) conducted by it on January 29 and to go ahead with the counselling.

On January 27, while granting permission, the Bench had made it clear that the results should not be published for the time being.

Today, senior counsel K.K. Venugopal, who appeared for the petitioner, brought to the notice of the Bench that the State Government and the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences were allowed to conduct the counselling but it could not do so because of certain malpractices in the CET conducted by the university on February 12 and it would have to be construed that this test was only for institutions other than COMED-K member colleges.

Appearing for the State, counsel Sanjay Hedge produced a copy of the vigilance report on the enquiry conducted on the malpractices in the CET.

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