Supreme Court Requests Expert Opinion on Eligibility of 88 per cent Muscular Dystrophy Candidate for MBBS
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While considering the plea by an MBBS aspirant with 88% muscular dystrophy, the Supreme Court recently observed that there were no specific guidelines available to assess disability with assistive devices in terms of the guidelines issued by the Government of India.
Therefore, to ascertain whether the candidate suffering from 88% muscular dystrophy is eligible for the MBBS admission, which was beyond the permissible limit of 80%, the top court bench of CJI DY Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra have sought an expert opinion in this regard.
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