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Wednesday, February 23, 2005

Supreme Court Directive for All India PG

http://www.hindu.com/2005/02/22/stories/2005022203121300.htm

NEW DELHI, FEB. 21. The Supreme Court today directed the Chief Secretaries of all the States and Union Territories to furnish details of the total post-graduate medical seats in government colleges in their States and indicate 50 per cent seats to the Director-General of Health Services by February 26 for allocation to the all-India quota.

A Bench of Justice Y.K. Sabharwal and Justice P.P. Naolekar giving this direction on a petition filed by 23 doctors aspiring for PG medical admission, asked the States to indicate the 50 per cent seats without excluding those reserved for various categories.

The DGHS was directed to compile the list of available seats under the all-India quota and inform the court on February 28.

The petitioners, Buddhi Prakash Sharma and 22 others, said the Supreme Court had directed that the all-India quota for admission to PG medical courses for 2005-2006 be increased to 50 per cent. The allotment of seats was to be done through counselling from March 3 onwards.

They said the authorities had not mentioned in the prospectus the seats available for the Central pool. They understood that the Assistant Director-General had issued a communication to all the Principals and Deans of Government Medical Colleges in the country asking them to intimate the number of seats to be filled up on an all-India basis. They had been asked to give the 50 per cent seats available for the Central pool after excluding the seats available for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Other Backward Classes, etc.

This, they said, would result in reduction in the total seats for the all-India quota.

Tuesday, February 22, 2005

Supreme Court WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) NO.18 OF 2005 dt 21/02/2005

ITEM NO.15 COURT NO.3 SECTION X

S U P R E M E C O U R T O F I N D I A

RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS
WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) NO.18 OF 2005


BUDDHI PRAKASH SHARMA & ORS. Petitioner(s)
VERSUS
UNION OF INDIA & ORS. Respondent(s)
(With appln(s) for directions)

Date: 21/02/2005 This Petition was called on for hearing today.

CORAM :
HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE Y.K. SABHARWAL
HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE P.P. NAOLEKAR

For Petitioner(s) Mr. A. Mariarputham,Adv.
Ms. Aruna Mathur,Adv.
For M/s. Arputham,Aruna & Co.,Advs.


For Respondent(s) Ms. Sandhya Goswami,Adv.
Ms. Sushma Suri,Adv.
Mr. Maninder Singh,Adv.
Ms. Pratibha M. Singh,Adv.
Mr. Angad Mirdha,Adv.
Mr. Kirtiman Singh,Adv.
Mr. Saurabh Mishra,Adv.

UPON hearing counsel the Court made the following
O R D E R

The learned counsel appearing for the Union of India submits that counter affidavit will be filed during the course of the day.

Without prejudice to the issues raised in the writ petition and in order to obviate any further delay in case the contention of the petitioner is accepted, we direct the Director General of Health Services [D.G.H.S.] to send a communication to the Chief Secretaries of all the States and Union Territories to furnish information to the D.G.H.S. as to what will be the total number of seats in Post-graduate courses if worked out on the basis of fifty per cent of the total number of seats without any exclusion. The Chief Secretaries are directed to furnish the requisite information to the D.G.H.S. by 24th February, 2005. The said information shall be tabulated by the D.G.H.S. and brought to the notice of this Court on the next date of hearing.

List the writ petition on 28th February, 2005.

[ T.I. Rajput ] [ V.P. Tyagi ]
Court Master Court Master

Thursday, February 17, 2005

Chennai High Court upholds re examination for MS Ophthal

In a significant judgement, the Chennai High Court Bench of Judges P.Sadasivam and S.K.Krishnan has categorically upheld the Decision of the Tamil Nadu Dr.M.G.R.Medical University to conduct re examination for Final year MS (Ophthalmology) exams.

The trouble started when the professors conducting the exam got a high profile pressure asking them to pass a candidate who has allegdely done miserably.

Acting to their conscience, the professors did not relent to the awkward pressure.

However the source of this manipulation was so high placed in the government that the pressure continued. This led to the Vice Chancellor cancelling the entire exam.

The decision was upheld by High Court

Friday, February 11, 2005

Supreme Court SLP(C)No. 2229 OF 2005 050211

SLP(C)No. 2229 OF 2005

ITEM No.22 Court No. 3 SECTION XII



S U P R E M E C O U R T O F I N D I A
RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS


Petition(s) for Special Leave to Appeal (Civil) No.2229/2005

(From the judgement and order dated 23/12/2004 in WA 2091/04
of The HIGH COURT OF MADRAS)


SECRETARY TO GOVT., H.F.W.D. & ORS. Petitioner (s)

VERSUS

M. SATHYAPRIYA & ANR. Respondent (s)

(With prayer for interim relief)


Date : 11/02/2005 This Petition was called on for hearing today.


CORAM :
HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE Y.K. SABHARWAL
HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE P.P. NAOLEKAR


For Petitioner (s) Mr. Muthukumar Swamy, Adv.
Mr. Subramonium Prasad.,Adv.
Mr. Karthikeyan, Adv.

For Respondent (s) Mr. Rajiv Dutta, Sr. Adv.
Mr. M.A. Chinnasamy, Adv.



UPON hearing counsel the Court made the following
O R D E R
Issue notice.
Meanwhile, there will be stay of the impugned judgment.

(Subhash Chander) (V.P. Tyagi)
Court Master Court Master