MADURAI
The Madras High Court Bench here will take a call on Monday on granting interim stay on the operation of a Government Order issued on June 22 allotting 85% of MBBS/BDS seats in the State to students who have studied in Tamil Nadu State Board and only 15% of the seats to those who have studied in the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) stream.
Though the High Court Registry had doubted the maintainability of a writ petition challenging the G.O. since the Supreme Court had requested High Courts across the country not to entertain cases related to National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET), Justice K. Kalyanasundaram on Friday found the petition maintainable and directed the Registry to number it.
Concurring with the submissions of petitioner K. Sibi’s lawyer-father K.K. Kannan, who argued the case in person, that the case filed by him questioning the G.O. had nothing to do with cases related to NEET pending before the apex court, the judge ordered that the writ petition should be listed for admission before the portfolio judge concerned on Monday.
Filing an affidavit on behalf of his minor son, the petitioner said the boy had scored 473 out of 500 marks in his Class XII examinations under the CBSE syllabus and 476 (96.67%) out of 500 marks in NEET conducted this year. He claimed that the apportioning of just 15% of medical seats in the State for the CBSE students was unfair and arbitrary.
