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NEET Ordinance: SC refuses to hear plea

NEET Ordinance: SC refuses to hear plea
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New Delhi, May 28(UNI) The Supreme Court refused to hear urgently the plea filed by an Indore-based doctor seeking an interim stay on the recently-promulgated Ordinance giving the power to States to continue and operate with their separate entrance tests for MBBS and BDS courses for 2016-17. The petitioner, Dr Anand Rai, who also claimed to be a whistle blower in the Madhya Pradesh's Vyapam scam case, approached the Apex Court through his lawyer Vivek Tankha, seeking an urgent hearing into the matter. An Apex Court two-judge vacation bench, headed by Justice Prafulla C Pant and also also comprising Justice DY Chandrachud, after hearing the petition filed by Dr Rai, said, “Let the matter come up for hearing after the (summer) vacation. Let us not create further confusion on medical entrance test and let there be some certainty for the students. Moreover, this (ordinance) is there for one year only." While declining an urgent hearing of the plea filed by Dr Rai, the division bench prima facie did not agree with his submission that the Union government was not competent to nullify the judicial order by promulgating the ordinance. Attorney General (AG) Mukul Rohatgi, appearing for the Central government, said the Ordinance, which keeps State boards outside the purview of single medical entrance test NEET, is effective only for this academic year and the government was well within its right to come up with it. On Thursday, Dr Rai had filed the plea seeking quashing of the ordinance, which got Presidential assent on May 24. UNI XC CJ RP1820

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