Bombay high court upholds cancellation of admission of a 20-year-old MBBS student on the grounds that his HSC certificate had not been issued by a recognised education board.
The Bombay high court on Monday upheld the cancellation of admission of a 20-year-old MBBS student of MGM Institute of Health Sciences, Navi Mumbai, on the grounds that his higher secondary school certificate had not been issued by a recognised education board.
The student will have to forego his college fees of Rs5,65,000 and he is likely face a recovery suit from the college for retrieval of future charges for the seat left vacant.
A division bench comprising Justices DY Chandrachud and RG Ketkar refused any interim relief to Jasol Subhash Chandra Banthia, a resident of Panvel, saying, “If the certificate is not from a recognised [education] board, then the admission does not meet the criteria as laid down by the University Grants Commission and the petitioner cannot be allowed to continue his course.”
Banthia had said in his petition that in 2010, he cleared his higher secondary school (HSC) examinations from a Indian School Certificate Examinations centre in Powai. Since he failed to meet the score criterion of 50% marks to be eligible for the MBBS entrance test, he sat the HSC examinations again from a centre at Dulari Nagar in Uttar Pradesh.
He scored 70% this time around, and, therefore, became eligible to sit the medical common entrance test (CET). He ranked 75 in the CET and was given provisional admission at the MGM Institute of Health Sciences, Navi Mumbai. Banthia sat the first semester examinations there, but the college withheld his results on the grounds that his HSC mark sheet was not genuine.
The institute, in its reply before the court, said during a verification process, it was informed by the Council of Boards of School Education that the centre in Uttar Pradesh from where Banthia cleared his HSC examinations was not recognised. Based on this, the MGM Institute of Health Sciences scrapped student’s admission.
No relief
The student, Jasol Subhash Chandra Banthia, a resident of Panvel, will have to forego his college fees of Rs5,65,000
He is likely to face a recovery suit from the college for retrieval of future charges for the seat left vacant.
The MGM Institute of Health Sciences scrapped the student’s admission after it was found that his higher secondary school certificate had not been issued by a recognised education board.
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