Advocate Ira Gupta
On Tuesday i.e. 26.02.2019, the Hon’ble Delhi High
Court asked the Centre and Medical Council of India (MCI) to file a reply on a
petition challenging a notification which barred more than 80% disabled persons
from taking admission in UG medical education programmes.
A division bench comprising of Hon’ble Chief
Justice Rajendra Menon and Hon’ble Mr. Justice V. Kameswar Rao refused to stay
the notification, saying that no affected persons have approached the court
challenging the notification.
The Court has listed the matter for further hearing
on April 4.
The court was hearing a petition filed by Satendra
Singh through Advocate Gaurav Kumar Bansal.
The petitioner has challenged MCI’s notification
declaring aspirants having benchmark disabilities of more than 80% as
ineligible for admission to undergraduate medical education programmes.
The petition claimed that the decision
is “highly irrational, arbitrary & discriminatory”.
The petitioner has sought to set aside the
notification as it has attacked the dignity of persons with benchmark
disability and is in gross violation of equality.
The petitioner has argued that the Central
Government and the MCI have failed to state the legitimate aim which they seek
to achieve by making persons having more than 80% disability ineligible from
taking MBBS examination.
(Source: Latestlaws.com)
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