Karnataka HC grants relief to BAMS student whose admission was cancelled by RGUHS

Bengaluru: In a major relief to 1st-year BAMS student, whose admission ticket got rejected after his name appeared in the list of discontinued students, the Karnataka High Court has recently directed the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS) to approve his admission in BAMS Course for the academic year 2018-19.

The HC bench has also ordered a probe into the matter.

The case concerns a first-year

BAMS student of TMAE Society's Ayurvedic Medical College and Hospital, who was barred from taking up the examination to be conducted by RGUHS. It so happened that when the BAMS student's name was forwarded to the university for the purpose of admission ticket, the same was rejected on the ground that his candidature was not approved by RGUHS.

Already lost an academic year due to failure in appearing in the examination which held on September 30 2019, the candidate moved the court seeking permission to appear for the examination.

During the contention, it was found that the institution had forwarded a list of 23 candidates and another list of 13 candidates with a caption "Discontinued Students List for the academic year 2018-19" and the petitioner's name was put in this list forwarded by the Principal of the institute.

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Deliberating the issue, a division bench of Justice L Narayana Swamy and Justice Ashok K Kinagai held the institution accountable, stating that the court is not inclined to encourage any of the institutions including this institution to commit this kind of mistake.

The court observed;

"On one hand, the institution states that they have forwarded the list for approval which includes the name of the petitioner, whereas on the other hand, the University submitted that in the list of 43 students, name of the petitioner has not been included, but more particularly in the list of discontinued students, name of the petitioner is very much there which shows that the petitioner's name has not been forwarded."

Ruling in favour of the BAMS candidate, the court directed the University to permit the candidate to take up the examinations and held;

"In order to work out this irregularity and lapse on the part of the institution, it is the right time to direct the CCB to investigate and make a report to this Court. The CCB shall investigate the matter and submit a report within a period of four."

The court held that this institution has spoiled one academic year of the petitioner. Therefore, though the petitioner's name has not been forwarded, he is to be permitted to take up the examinations.

Hence, the University is directed to permit the petitioner to take up the examinations.

The CCB shall investigate the matter and submit a report within a period of four months, the court ordered a probe on the matter.

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