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Wednesday, Sep 22, 2004

Karnataka

Karnataka

Notification on annulment of admissions stayed

By Our Staff Reporter

BANGALORE, SEPT. 21. A few students of a private medical college in Tumkur have petitioned the Karnataka High Court against the cancellation of their admission to the MBBS course made this academic year following an agreement between the State Government and the managements of private professional colleges on the revised seat-sharing formula.

The petitioners Potluri Meghaana, Sajiv K. Rajashekaran, J. Joshua Vijay and Swarupjit Ghata, said they were admitted to Siddartha Medical College through the entrance test conducted by the Consortium of Medical, Engineering and Dental Colleges of Karnataka under the management quota.

They had paid the course fees and other fees.

On September 17, the college issued a notification stating that the admission of 13 students, including the petitioners, was cancelled following a Government notification on September 9.

The college notification said it was required to cancel 10 per cent of the admission made under the management quota of 50 per cent.

This was because the managements had decided to surrender 10 per cent of the seats following the agreement to allot 60 per cent of the seats under the Government quota.

In their petitions, the students claimed that their admission was made earlier to the Government notification.

This was not published in newspapers and they were unaware of it.

They said they had given an undertaking only on paying any difference in fee and not on surrendering their seats in the event of any change in the seat-sharing formula.

Their admission was done legally and its cancellation was illegal, arbitrary and unconstitutional.

They said the joint memos filed before the Supreme Court stated that if there was no existing vacancy in the management quota, then the question of providing seats up to 10 per cent of the management quota would not arise.

The petitioners urged the court to stay the college notification.

The Government submitted that any interim order passed would hinder the ongoing Common Entrance Test (CET) counselling.

Justice S. Abdul Nazir stayed till Thursday the college notification.

Stayed

Justice K.L. Manjunath stayed the constitution of the school development and management committee of the Government Urdu Higher Primary School in Hirekurur and ordered issue of notice to the State Government and other respondents.

The order was passed on the petitions by Haku Sab and two others.

The petitioners said the Hirekurur MLA had appointed his supporters to the committee.

They claimed that the MLA was trying to politicise the committee and this would harm the students.

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