HC notice on Delhi MBBS aspirants' plea

Updated on: Saturday, August 13, 2011

The Delhi High Court sought the assistance from the Solicitor General on a PIL filed by a group of MBBS aspirants alleging Delhi University offered MBBS seats to outstation students but denied the same to local residents despite the latter qualifying in the entrance.

A bench of Chief justice Dipak Misra and Justice Sanjiv Khanna asked the senior law officer to appear before it and assist on the issue while fixing August 18 as the next date of hearing the PIL.

Three women students, who are city residents and have cleared the Delhi University Medical-Dental Entrance Test 2011, alleged the varsity adopted a discriminatory policy by not giving admission to them but offering seats to outsiders.

Filing the petition through advocate Aman Hingorani, the aspirants sought a direction to DU for an uniform policy based on residence for the city students taking the common entrance tests for MBBS course.

The Bulletin of Information-2011, issued by DU, did not prescribe residence requirement for taking the test in favour of students from Delhi and candidates from other states like Sikkim, Manipur, Mizoram etc, they said.

Alleging the Centre and MCI has allowed DU to adopt a "discriminatory and non-uniform" policy, the petitioners said "the omission of the university to prescribe residence requirements for admission to the MBBS course 2011-12 is in violation of the law laid down by the Supreme Court."

The petitioners sought a direction to DU to consider their admission to MBBS course in any of its affiliated colleges.

"The respondent MCI had framed the Medical Council of India Regulations on Graduate Medical Education, 1997, which were conspicuously silent on any provision with regard to allocation of seats amongst the selected candidates on the basis of residence," the petitioners said.

HC notice on Delhi MBBS aspirants' plea

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