Friday, April 25, 2008

No order passed on med petition

By S A Ishaqui
Hyderabad, April 22: A division bench of the AP High Court onTuesday was not inclined to pass any order on a petition seeking stay on the implementation of four per cent reservation for backward classes among Muslims for post graduate medical courses.
The bench comprising Chief Justice AR Dave and Justice R SubhashReddy heard arguments on the petition filed by G Srinath and K Malathi, medical students of Bholakpur in Secundrabad, seeking direction that reservations for Muslims in medical PG courses should not be implemented.
The bench observed that "it was not proper to give any interim order at this stage in the present petition as a batch of writ petitions with regard to four per cent reservations is pending before the larger bench of this court".Mr K Ramakrishna Reddy, senior counsel for the petitioners, told the court that the batch of petitions were referred to a seven member bench and the bench was yet to be constituted.
The Chief Justice said he would take a decision on the constitution of the seven member bench as soon as possible.
Mr Reddy requested the court to granted stay on the counselling for the PG medical admissions.The court turned down the plea and posted the next hearing to April 30.

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