AP High Court bench stays single judge order in medical admission case

By S A Ishaqui

Hyderabad, May 23: A Vacation Bench of the AP High Court on Thursday granted interim suspension of an order of a single judge directing the private unaided non-minority medical colleges to consider the cases of the several medical students for admission in the next academic year.

A single judge granted an order directing that the colleges have to consider the cases of students who have approached the court challenging the action of the college managements in not accepting their applications.

The judge also passed a series of directions directing the state government and NTR University of Health Sciences to ensure steps for transparent admission process under the management quota and to prepare a format for common application to be issued by all the medical colleges for admissions into management quota.

Aggrieved by the order, several college managements have moved the appeals before the Vacation Bench. While hearing the case, the bench noticed that earlier Vacation Bench has passes an order by granting interim direction only with regard to admissions of the petitioners and not inclined to stay other directions with regard to streamlining of admission process.

The bench had ordered that "there shall be interim suspension to the extent of directions issued by the single judge to consider the case of the petitioners for admission in the next academic year. It is made clear that if the government wants to make Rules to regulate the C-Category admissions, it is open to the government to do so without reference to pendency of the writ appeal before this Court."

Justice Chandraiah said that the same order will be applied for those colleges who have moved the appeals before this bench.