PCI can’t punish students for admin fault: HC

Maintaining that the students cannot be penalised for technical faults in administrative side of the regulatory bodies, the Hyderabad High Court made it clear with the Pharma Council of India (PCI) that it cannot be penalised or sent out 12 students who joined in excess of the intake of 60 permitted by the PCI for the academic year 2017-18 in the pharmacy college run by Muslim Education Social and Cultural Organisation of the city.

A division bench comprising Justice V. Ramasubramanian and Justice T. Amarnath Goud while dismissing a petition by the college management challenging the action of the PCI in refusing to approve 12 admissions made the above observation. The bench reminded that the students were admitted by virtue of interim order on August 22, 2017 at a time when there was no clarity on the stand taken by the PCI.