The Hindu : HC stays inquiry into medical admission

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Thursday, Apr 03, 2003

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HC stays inquiry into medical admission

By Our Staff Reporter

Kochi April 2. A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court on Wednesday stayed the probe ordered by the Government into complaints that two self-financing medical colleges in the State had made admissions to the MBBS courses in violation of the Supreme Court directives.

The Bench comprising the Chief Justice J. L. Gupta and Justice Kurian Joseph restrained the five-member inquiry committee headed by the Commissioner for Entrance Examinations, C.K. Viswanathan, from inquiring into the allegations, on a writ petition filed by the Pushapagiri Medical Society, Thiruvalla. The other college against which the inquiry was ordered was the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church Medical college. The Committee was asked to probe whether these colleges had invited applications, the number of applications they received, whether they had conducted their own entrance examination, and the nature of it, number of students who had appeared for it; whether the standard of syllabus of the entrance examination was equal to that of the State entrance examination; whether the students who figured in the rank list were given admission; the students to whom the admission was given; whether merit was given due consideration in admission, whether the reservation principles were observed; whether the transparency demanded by the Supreme Court was observed; the fee structure, the fee proposed to be collected in the coming years and the date of commencement of classes. The Committee had been directed to submit its report within two weeks. The order constituting the committee was passed on March 22.

The petitioner pointed out that the Government did not raise these issues when the original writ petition against the reservation of 50 per cent for Government quota was heard and decided by the court. Besides, the High Court had given a clean chit to the colleges in the case of the admission to the colleges and conduct of entrance examinations while disposing of the review petition filed by the Government against the Bench's earlier order reducing the Government's quota to 25 per cent.

The petition sought to quash the Government Order on an inquiry. The petition had been posted to April 11 for further hearing.

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