TEAM HERALD
PANJIM: Even as the government submitted its affidavit placing its previously stated position on record before the Goa Bench of the Bombay High Court, Post Graduate students of the Goa Medical College whose admissions were set aside by it on last Thursday approached the Supreme Court seeking redressal.
The High Court will deliver its verdict on July 31.
The writ petition filed by Dr Aneesh Lawande and Dr Manish Ujwal against the State of Goa will come up for hearing on Tuesday. The students allege that the government has acted against the Supreme Court’s judgement earlier this month.
The GMC had admitted students to all the post-graduate courses for the academic year 2013-14 under the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test. But with the Supreme Court quashing the NEET exams conducted by the Medical Council of India, the government has reverted to the old procedures of admitting students on the basis of MBBS results.
A three-judge bench by a 2:1 verdict held that the MCI notification was beyond the powers of the Constitution. The apex court, however, made it clear that its verdict will
not affect the admissions, which have already taken place. So the affected students have now approached the Supreme Court challenging the decision of the State government.
The government in its affidavit filed before the Goa Bench of the Bombay High Court put forward its decision as elucidated by the government pleader a couple of days back.
Meanwhile, as the students claim that they were granted admissions on provisional basis and the Supreme Court has retained such admissions, Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar said that the government’s decision is as per the Supreme Court verdict and Goa Medical College had not done any admissions.
He also told media that in the beginning itself “we had taken an undertaking from the students that the fate of their admission would be based on Supreme Court verdict,” and that they (government) had said that if SC quashes NEET then their admissions would be canceled.
