No error in MBBS/ BDS counselling: HC

The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court has ruled that the centralised counselling for admission into MBBS/BDS courses based on National Eligibility-CumEntrance Test (NEET) 2016 in all medical institutions in UP did not suffer from any errors.

The court further directed that minority institutions will be allowed to admit students of their community to the extent permissible in accordance with the merit list of the examination results, so as to sub-serve their minority status under Article 30 (1) of the Constitution.

This significant judgement was delivered by a division bench of justice Amreshwar Pratap Sahi and justice Rajan Roy on Thursday in response to 15 writ petitions including the petition filed by UP Unaided Medical Colleges Welfare Association Bareilly.

These petitions challenged the orders of the state government on centralized counselling on grounds of alleged irregularities.

The court further directed that the committee concerned will refix the fee for seats in private institutions. As consequence of this, first round counselling which had not been finalized, is required to be held again, the court said.

It also stated that counselling be expedited and the admission process completed no later than September 25, 2016.

With these directions, the court partly allowed all the petitions.