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A quick legal roundup to cover important stories from all High Courts this week.
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Chhattisgarh HC seeks State response on alleged 100% domicile-based reservation in PG Medical Admissions
The petitioner contended that the Chhattisgarh Medical Post Graduate Admission Rules, 2021, worked in a way that would amount to 100 per cent reservation to candidates who got MBBS degree from Chhattisgarh or belonged to Chhattisgarh.
Supreme Court issues comprehensive Guidelines on protecting mental health of young students in coaching centres and colleges
“Mental health is an integral component of the right to life under Article 21 of the Constitution which has been upheld by the Court time and again.”
Telangana HC denies relief to BSF personnel wards claiming eligibility for reservation granted to Armed Forces personnel’s wards in medical courses
“The Act which governs the services, the method of recruitment, the conditions of services and tenure of Armed Forces and CAPF are different and by no stretch of imagination, it can be said that the Armed Forces viz., Army, Navy and Air Force and BSF/CAPF forms a homogenous class.”
[NEET UG 2024] Supreme Court directs NTA to upload results of all students, city and centre-wise, after masking their identities
Supreme Court directed NTA to complete this exercise till Saturday noon.
[NEET UG 2024] Patna HC permits CBI to take custody of 13 accused in NEET paper leak case
The Court stayed the order dated 02-07-2024 passed by the Exclusive Magistrate, CBI, Patna, whereby CBI’s application for remand of the 13 accused was rejected.
Admissions and jobs based on 10% reservation to Maratha under SEBC, subject to final outcome of pleas challenging Maharashtra Reservation Act: Bombay HC
The Act grants 10 percent reservation to the Maratha community under the Socially and Educationally Backward Class (SEBC) category. A report of MSBCC cited ‘exceptional circumstances and extraordinary situations’ for surpassing the total reservation limit of 50 percent.
Decoding Madras HC verdict in PG Medical Seat Scam which denied admission to 28 students selected on merit by CENTAC
Medical profession deals with life of people and any compromise on merit would have a delirious effect
“Student had obtained a seat in JIPMER, Puducherry surreptitiously and based on a false declaration”; Madras HC directs authorities to take necessary action
Madras High Court without cancelling the seat of the student, directed the respondents to take necessary action based on the declaration that the student had obtained a seat through a false declaration.
Explained| Supreme Court’s verdict on prospective applicability of MHA Notification restricting OCI cardholders from competing with Indian Citizens in NEET
The Supreme Court held that the impugned notification taking away the accrued rights of OCI cardholders should have prospective effect on children born after the said date.
J&K and Ladakh HC| J&K Reservation Act does not bar the admission of reserved category students in open merit, if they are found qualified
“The benefit of reservation must reach to the deserving candidate in the category and is not eaten away or affected by a candidate of reserved category, who on the strength of his merit, has equal or better merit than the merit of the candidate last admitted in the professional course in the general category”.
Can plea of poor internet connectivity be entertained if it deprives a student of his entitlement to take admission? Madras High Court directs State to compensate
Digitization is the road ahead. It should lead to empowerment and not deprivation. The “ifs” haunt me. What can the court do in such circumstances when the student is not at fault?
SC allows Tamil Nadu to grant 50% reservation for in-service doctors in Super Specialty Medical Courses
Supreme Court: In the issue relating to the reservation of 50% Super Specialty seats for in-service candidates in Government Medical Colleges in
Megh HC │ Whether Court can issue directions for filling up the vacant seat for the MBBS Course? Courts answers
Meghalaya High Court: H. S. Thangkhiew, J. allowed a petition in which he had to consider whether this Court can direct the
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“Merit is not solely of one‘s own making. The rhetoric surrounding merit obscures the way in which family, schooling, fortune and a
Ker HC | Persons with disability are a homogenous class irrespective of social classification; such classification can’t be impeached by linking it with Art. 16 or Art 15
Kerala High Court: N. Nagaresh, J., held that it is by virtue of the statute mandating reservation for disabled persons that persons
“Reservation is not at odds with merit”; Here’s why SC upheld OBC reservation in NEET PG and UG Admissions in AIQ quota
Supreme Court: In a detailed judgment, the bench of Dr. DY Chandrachud and AS Bopanna, JJ has upheld the Constitutional validity of
NEET 2021-22: Supreme Court allows Counselling with 27% Quota for OBCs and 10% Quota for EWS in All India Quota
Supreme Court: Considering the urgent need to commence the process of Counselling, the bench of Dr. DY Chandrachud* and AS Bopanna, JJ,
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“It is no part of any judge’s duty to strain the plain words of a statute, beyond recognition and to the point
NEET| “Behind abstract number of ‘15 lakh students’ lie human lives”; SC asks NTA to rectify injustice caused to a “one-off” PwBD student
“Education plays a key role in social and economic inclusion and effective participation in society. Inclusive education is indispensable for ensuring universal and non-discriminatory access to education.”