The Madras High Court has set aside an order passed by the Medical Council of India (now the National Medical Commission) on September 7, 2017 and a consequential order passed by the Government of Puducherry on September 14 that year, discharging 787 MBBS students admitted to private institutions under the management quota during the academic year 2016-17.
Justice Krishnan Ramasamy allowed writ petitions filed by the private institutions as well as the students in 2017 and 2018 and quashed the discharge orders passed by the MCI and the government since the students were not admitted on the basis of common counselling, and many were reportedly admitted after the cut-off date of September 30, 2016.
