The Madras High Court on Wednesday dismissed as withdrawn writ petitions by over 100 students challenging a Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR Medical University's decision that they should secure a minimum of 50 per cent in each of the subjects in the first year examinations, instead of scoring 50 per cent in an aggregate manner.
When the matter came up before the First Bench of Chief Justice M.Y. Eqbal and Justice T.S. Sivagnanam, university's counsel and Advocate-General, A. Navaneethakrishnan, produced before the court the resolution adopted by the university's special governing council on November 8 in which it was decided not to implement the changes in the evaluation pattern of the first year MBBS course for August 2011 examinations. The first year MBBS students who were examinees of August would be governed by MCI regulations.
The Bench said this decision had been taken based on the State government's instructions of November 4.
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The court said that in the aforesaid premises, counsel for all the writ petitioners sought permission to withdraw the petitions. Accordingly, all petitions were being dismissed as withdrawn.
The Bench made it clear that on the basis of the university's guidelines those students who were not allowed to attend the classes or their attendance had not been taken for consideration, they should be deemed to have attended the classes during that period.