New Delhi: The Supreme Court (SC) on Wednesday gave stern warning to three medical colleges for giving admission to students in excess of the 50pc seats reserved for them.
The SC has made it clear that unaided private medical/dental colleges cannot admit students apart from the 50pc seats reserved for them through the Madhya Pradesh Common Entrance Test (CET) conducted by them as this leads to taking away the seats meant for admissions through the CET held by the State.
The Bench comprising of Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan, Justices P. Sathasivam and J.M. Panchal, after giving stern warning to the three colleges asked them to file an affidavit explaining whether they had violated the court order or not and how many seats were filled through the CET conducted by them.
Earlier the SC on May 27 had ordered private unaided medical and dental colleges to sustain 50:50 ratio half of the seats for the management students and the rest of the 50pc seats for those students who passed the CETs conducted by the State.
The matter was taken up, on Wednesday alleging the Modern Dental College and Research Centre, Indore; the R.D. Gardi Medical College, Ujjain; and the People’s College of Dental Science and Research Centre, Bhopal by the Madhya Pradesh Government and the selected candidates that these colleges had taken their own students without admitting those selected through the State CET.
“It is a clear case of contempt, as the colleges had violated the court order,” said senior counsel Ravi Shankar Prasad appearing for the State.
But, senior counsel Abhishek Singhvi, Rajeev Dhavan and Rohinton Nariman, appearing for the colleges, said, “The admissions were made in the colleges before May 27 and thus have not violated the court order.”
Outraged Chief Justice told counsel, “It is evident that you [colleges] have given admission in excess of 50 per cent. The May 27 order has been violated and you will have to face the consequences. You do not have the right to admit a single student in excess of the 50 per cent allocated for the admission and we will not allow such admissions. We know all these tricks and we come across such cases every year. It is contempt of the court, and we will issue contempt notice if we find that the order had been violated.”
Many parents also alleged that the state of affairs in many colleges charge exorbitant amounts like Rs.25 lakh a seat, which reflects that it is a capitation scam.
The case came in highlight when these private colleges refused to admit students in spite of them being in the merit list of the state conducted CET.
The colleges had tried to hike the capitation seats by embezzling the state quota.
Further hearing of this case has been posted for July 16.
–Agencies–