While permitting three MBBS students to continue their second year course, the Madras High Court has directed the Tamil Nadu Dr.MGR Medical University to publish their results of the August 2014 examination within three weeks.
Justice T.S.Sivagnanam granted the relief while allowing petitions by M.Sathish Kumar and two others. They joined the MBBS in the academic year 2011-12. They filed writ petitions for a direction to the authorities to permit them to continue their course along with their batch mates who had passed first year during February 2013 and write the university examination.
They had failed in various subjects in the first year. They were declared `failed’ also in supplementary examination in February 2013.
Earlier, they sought to quash the university’s notification insisting upon double valuation and reckoning of average marks of both values in the MBBS examination. They should be declared `passed’ in the subjects by applying the MCI regulation.
Allowing the petitions, Mr.Justice Sivagnanam said the High Court had already quashed the notification. The authorities, though they accepted the court decision, were said to have conducted one more evaluation and published the results only on August 18, 2013. This was clearly erroneous.
On account of the wrong interpretation by the university and the delay in publishing the results, the petitioners lost one month in joining the second year MBBS course. Thus, merely because the university took its own time to comply with the court decision and published the results only on August 18, 2013, it could not be a ground to state that the three could not pursue the second year and take the examination along with their batch. . The Judge quashed the impugned order.
