HC reserves orders on Bellary Medical College PGET issue

Updated on: Friday, May 27, 2011

The Karnataka High Court reserved judgement for tomorrow on allegations of malpractice by nine students who had attended the medical Post Graduate Entrance Test (PGET) at Vijayanagar Institute of Medical Sciences in Bellary.
  
Earlier, the state government as per the directions of the court, had submitted the enquiry report and also the seat matrix for the final counselling before Justice B S Patil.
  
 The court had yesterday observed there was no "strong evidence" in the report to suggest malpractice and that the matter could be referred to the CBI if the state government was unable to conduct a proper investigation.
   
When the matter came up, the court reserved its judgement on the matter to tomorrow.
  
On May 4, the court had directed the state government to inform it on when the final investigations would be completed after it was told that casual round of conselling for PGET would begin on May 26 and admissions would be held on May 30.
  
However, the court did not permit the students to attend the second round of counselling to be held tomorrow.
  
The court had expressed displeasure over the delay in completing the enquiry and observed "it cannot be denied that the petitioners cannot be penalised based on interim reports submitted by the preliminary investigation...only a detailed investigation will make it clear whether the petitioners are really involved in malpractice".
  
The court had taken the state government and Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences to task over continuation of the probe, while students were in a limbo. It also felt the government had not done enough to bring all perpetrators of the malpractice to book and had focussed only on penalising the students.
 
Nine medical students had been disallowed from appearing for PGET medical counselling following an interim report by Lokayukta, holding them guilty of malpractices during the entrance test.

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