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Court directive to AIIMS

Staff Reporter

“Allow SC/ST medical students to appear for counselling”

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court has directed the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences to allow medical graduates belonging to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes to appear for counselling for post-graduate courses scheduled for April 22.

To benefit many

The direction by Justice Gita Mittal will benefit hundreds of such graduates in different States.

The AIIMS authorities had marked a large number of SC and ST medical graduates absent from the first round of counselling and refused permission to them to appear in the second round.

The Institute submitted that it had asked them to appear in advance for the counselling in three batches, but they reached the venue late.

‘Arbitrarily barred’

The High Court direction came on a batch of petitions by some of these graduates through their counsel, R. K. Saini.

Mr. Saini contended that the petitioners had actually reached the counselling venue in three batches in advance, but the Institute arbitrarily barred them from appearing in it saying that counselling for their batch had already been held.

Justice Mittal allowed Mr. Saini’s plea saying that the prospectus for the post-graduate courses did not clearly define the term “batch”.

The Court also directed AIIMS and the Union Government to give wide publicity to the second round of counselling by issuing public notices setting out the names, full particulars and merit ranks of the SC and ST candidates who were marked absent.

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