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Anbumani told to sign degrees in 24 hours

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Monday cleared the decks for award of MBBS degrees to students of the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) with signatures of all the authorised signatories. It directed the Institute’s governing body president and Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss and the Dean (Academics) to sign them within 24 hours.

Justice Ravinder Bhatt directed the AIIMS administration to forward the 49 degrees already issued to the students by it to the Health Ministry so that they could be sent to Chennai by flight to enable the Minister, on a visit there, to sign them.

Court rejects argument

Rejecting argument by counsel for the Minister that since the appointment of the Institute’s Registrar was illegal the degrees might be deemed invalid due to his signature on them, the Court rejected the argument and ruled that they shall be deemed to be valid.

The four authorised signatories are: the AIIMS governing body president, the Director, the Dean (Academics) and the Registrar.

“The Union Health Minister shall affix his signature on the 49 degrees as well as other such degrees that the students will require to get admissions for higher studies and he will sign them within 24 hours,” Mr. Justice Bhatt said.

The directions came on a petition by three of the students, submitting that they had apprehension that the degrees issued to them this past Thursday with the signatures only of the Institute’s Director and the Dean (Examinations) might not be accepted by foreign universities where they had applied for higher studies.

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