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HC directs college to admit students

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: The Karnataka High Court on Friday directed the Yenepoya Dental College to admit students selected under Government quota for the postgraduate (PG) dental course for this academic year.

Justice Mohan Shantangouder passed the order on petitions filed by five students, including Ganesh Chinathan, Ajay Prasad Hrishi, Kudalkar Mithun, Mritunjaya Kumar, and Sandeep Ramanath Jithuni, who had challenged the refusal by the institution to admit them.

Background

The petitioners said that they had graduated from medical and dental colleges and had appeared for the PGCET and got selected. Although they were allotted the Yenepoya Dental College, they were refused admission stating that the institution had now become a deemed university.

Justice Shantangouder allowed the petitions and in an interim order, directed the college to admit the students.

Notice to MRPL School

Justice Mohan Shantangouder ordered issue of notices to the Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd. School in Mangalore and other respondents on a petition by the MRPL School All Parents’ Coordination Committee for increasing the school fee for the current year by nearly 100 per cent. The petitioners said that the school was started in 1995-96 and it had 1,000 students. The school was affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education, they said.

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