Times of India: Hyderabad: Wednesday, August 15, 2018.
A review plea
was filed before the Hyderabad High Court on Monday, contending that NTR
University of Health Sciences has submitted two conflicting sets of information
- one to the court and another to students - about how it was maintaining 50:50
ratio between merit and reserved candidates for filling MBBS seats in AP's
medical colleges.
Kurakula
Urjitha Yadav of Anantapur filed the plea, stating that in the name of
implementation of GO 550, authorities have done gross injustice to reserved
candidates. The authorities' information furnished to the court had shown that
reserved candidates were eating into the 50% merit space, she said. "But
when we sought the same information under RTI Act, the varsity registrar
furnished us information in writing that SC, ST and BC candidates have lost a
lot of seats on account of showing meritorious among them as reserved
candidates instead of showing them as open category candidates," she
contended in her plea.
Because of
the false information they furnished, the court was misled into believing that
injustice was done to merit candidates, the petitioner contended. The 50% merit
quota was not affected at all as painted by the varsity's authorities, she
alleged. "Moreover, the authorities were not supposed to allow sliding by
merit reserved candidates as the same was stayed by a bench of the High Court
last year," she said, and added that the authorities allowed sliding this
year also, contrary to the court's order and this has resulted in miscarriage
of justice.
She urged the
court to direct authorities to fill the merit 50% seats first as per GO 550 and
clause 5(1) and then let them fill the reserved 50% seats. The petitioner also
gave details of the OC, SC, ST and BC candidates shown as selected in this
year's MBBS admissions and narrated how the varsity officials have misled the
court by showing merit reserved candidates as reserved candidates when in
practice they are supposed to be shown in OC category.