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Updated on: Tuesday, March 08, 2011

The Delhi High Court has directed the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) to allot a seat in a master’s course to a doctor who was denied this last year due to a change in the prospectus just before the counseling date.

Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Sanjeev Khanna said, "The AIIMS authorities will have to allot a seat to Varun Aggarwal in PG course in the general category either in surgery, gynecology or orthopedics in the next academic session in July 2011."

The court observed, "The AIIMS may have been conferred with the privilege of institutional preference, but that would not enable it to change the prospectus in the manner it has been done. Thus, the action of the AIIMS on this score is vitiated and we cannot give a stamp of approval to the action of the institution."

"The hopes and aspirations of the students, who came within the zone of merit, cannot be scuttled by changing the prospectus by way of introducing a corrigendum. By issuing a corrigendum, the scenario of results changed because further results were published and more candidates were called," the court said.

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