The Supreme Court has ruled that if a meritorious and deserving candidate is denied admission to MBBS course without his fault, the court can direct for granting him a seat in exceptional and in rarest of cases by increasing the number of seats or cancelling the admission to the student at the bottom of merit list. Such a candidate can also be granted admission from the management quota seats next year, if one month beyond the cut-off date of September 30 has passed.
He or she can be granted compensation as an additional remedy if the candidate had to lose one full academic year for no fault. “Denial of admission in medical course to a meritorious candidate for no fault of his/her and though he/she has approached the court in time and despite the same not granting any just and equitable relief would be denial of justice,” a three-judge bench presided over by Justice A Mishra said in a…
