HC dismissed petitions to cancel medical seats alloted in stray round counseling
Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court on Wednesday dismissed a batch of petitions, seeking a direction to set aside the undergraduate medical seats (MBBS and BDS) allotted by the Kaloji Narayana Rao University for Health Sciences in the stray vacancy round counseling or counseling for the left over seats.
The division bench, comprising Chief Justice Alok Aradhe and Jukanti Anil Kumar, was dealing with a petition filed by K.T. Sai Revanth Reddy from Kadapa district of Andhra Pradesh and others in separate petitions, who complained to the court that the university had deliberately allotted seats in stray vacancy round counseling to the candidates who have already participated and joined seats in Phase -1, 2 and 3.
The petitioner submitted that is in complete defiance of the modified procedure issued by the Directorate General of Health Sciences and Family welfare.
The petitioners further said that the names of the candidates, who got seats in various phases, were to be eliminated in the software used for stray counseling. But, the university did not comply with the provision and deliberately conducted the stray round counseling by including the names of the candidates, who had already got seats.
Prabhakar Rao. A, the counsel for the Kaloji university, refuted the contentions of the petitioners and submitted to the court that already selected students will remain in their respective colleges only. “There will not be any change even after the stray round admissions,” he said.
"As students exercised their web options in the first two rounds of counseling, though the subsequent rounds did not allow their participation, the software program changed their category in tune with their original options, " he said.
The unreserved seats which were vacated by the students in the sliding method were filled with local candidates. The category of the students who already joined in the previous rounds will get slided in tune with their option. In the current case, the student who joined in Osmania Medical
College will remain there, the counsel explained to the court.
Considering the submissions by the counsel, the court opined that there are no latches in the stray round allocations.
