{"id":9957,"date":"2011-04-10T00:20:25","date_gmt":"2011-04-09T18:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=9957"},"modified":"2011-04-10T00:20:25","modified_gmt":"2011-04-09T18:50:25","slug":"supreme-court-slams-lapses-in-medical-college-admissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/supreme-court-slams-lapses-in-medical-college-admissions","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court slams lapses in medical college admissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/SUPREME-COURT-OF-INDIA2.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"9958\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/supreme-court-slams-lapses-in-medical-college-admissions\/supreme-court-of-india-50\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/04\/SUPREME-COURT-OF-INDIA2.jpg?fit=291%2C173&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"291,173\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SUPREME COURT OF INDIA\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/04\/SUPREME-COURT-OF-INDIA2.jpg?fit=150%2C89&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/04\/SUPREME-COURT-OF-INDIA2.jpg?fit=291%2C173&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9958\" title=\"SUPREME COURT OF INDIA\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/SUPREME-COURT-OF-INDIA2.jpg?resize=291%2C173&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"291\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/04\/SUPREME-COURT-OF-INDIA2.jpg?w=291&amp;ssl=1 291w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/04\/SUPREME-COURT-OF-INDIA2.jpg?resize=150%2C89&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0In an apparent expression of its exasperation over the state of medical education in the country, the Supreme Court slammed the authorities for ignoring the admission procedures and virtually selling the seats.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The best way for medical test (admission) is to put the seats to auction and whosoever bids successfully should be awarded admission,\u2019 sarcastically said the apex court bench of Justice B. Sudershan Reddy and Justice S.S. Nijjar Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The court\u2019s observations came in a case in which a medical college admitted six Class 12 students without their appearing in a pre-medical test. The students and the college defended the admissions.<\/p>\n<p>Senior counsel K.K. Venugopal, appearing for the students, questioned the Rajasthan High Court\u2019s order faulting the students\u2019 admission to a medical college affiliated to the Rajasthan University of Health Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u2018It is the court that holds force against me\u2019, prompting Justice Reddy to say: \u2018We also seem to be suffering from the same syndrome.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I have great reservations over the state of medical colleges in the country,\u2019 said Justice Reddy, adding \u2018(It is) not that we discount our (apex court) contribution (in the existing state of medical education)\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>When Venugopal argued that after pursuing the course for two-and-half years, the question mark on the admission of the six students may affect their career and leave the six seats vacant, the court said: \u2018Are there no higher principles involved than the argument that let no seat go vacant\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The Jaipur-based medical college admitted the six students against vacant seats for which there were no takers among the candidates who succeeded in the Rajasthan Pre-medical Test (RPMT), a common entrance exam.<\/p>\n<p>These six students did not appear in the RPMT and had merely cleared the Class 12 exam.<\/p>\n<p>Senior counsel Pallav Shishodia claimed that Class 12 was the eligibility criterion for admission to medical courses and not the pre-medical test.<\/p>\n<p>Venugopal said the court \u2018may be satisfied that in this case there was no \u2018hera pheri\u2019 (wrongdoing)\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The court said it wanted to hear the Medical Council of India\u2019s counsel before deciding the matter and adjourned the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0In an apparent expression of its exasperation over the state of medical education in the country, the Supreme Court slammed the authorities for ignoring the admission procedures and virtually selling the seats. \u2018The best way for medical test (admission) is to put the seats to auction and whosoever bids successfully should be awarded admission,\u2019 sarcastically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[612,2999,3000,3002,3003,3001,2513,47726],"class_list":["post-9957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-law-news","tag-admissions","tag-lapses","tag-medical-college","tag-rajasthan-pre-medical-test","tag-senior-counsel-k-k-venugopal","tag-senior-counsel-pallav-shishodia","tag-slams","tag-supreme-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Supreme Court slams lapses in medical college admissions<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In an apparent expression of its exasperation over the state of medical education in the country, the Supreme Court slammed the authorities for ignoring the admission procedures\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/supreme-court-slams-lapses-in-medical-college-admissions\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Supreme Court slams lapses in medical college admissions\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In an apparent expression of its exasperation over the state of medical education in the country, the Supreme Court slammed the authorities for ignoring the admission procedures\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/supreme-court-slams-lapses-in-medical-college-admissions\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; 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