The Supreme Court refuses to impose ban on the NEET emergency ordinance: Students relieved
Posted on: 27/May/2016 5:28:50 PM
The Supreme Court ordered recently to make the entrance test compulsory for joining Medical Courses and the tests to be organised in 2 stages. The first stage entrance test was conducted.
Meanwhile, some of the states including Tamil Nadu opposed this. So, the central government took a decision to promulgate an emergency ordinance to admit the students for medical courses for this year only without any tests and only through counselling. This has been approved by the president, Mr Pranab Mukherjee.
A social enthusiast from the state of Madhya Pradesh Mr Anand Rai and a medical student Sanjeev Saxena filed a petition in the Supreme Court against this emergency ordinance. The petition claimed that the ordinance is against the law and hence should be quashed.
Meanwhile, a Habeas Corpus petition was filed on behalf of students claiming that they also should be enquired in the event of any petition against the ordinance and the ordinance should not be quashed without this enquiry.
The petition filed by Anand Rai and Sanjeev Saxena came for hearing today (Friday, 27th May). The court gave the verdict that it cannot quash the emergency ordinance. It stated that the central government has not rejected the tests outright.It has only excluded a few states from the entrance tests. Any new orders given now will add to a great confusion and hence, the emergency ordinance cannot be quashed.
With this Supreme Court verdict, students from different states including Tamil Nadu are relieved to a great extent.
