Does Partial fee Payment without submission of enrollment form confirm MBBS Admission? SC to decide

New Delhi: The Supreme Court is going to take a call regarding the question of law if provisional admission letter downloaded from the Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) website confirms MBBS admission. Besides, the Apex Court will also decide if making partial fee payment would confirm admission at a medical college despite the fact that enrollment forms had not been submitted, scrutiny of the original documents and various other undertakings and swearing of affidavits had not been done.

These questions have come for consideration before the Supreme Court bench after an MBBS aspirant filed a plea as her original documents have been withheld by the medical college, where she had earlier thought of taking admission.

After appearing in NEET UG Counselling conducted by MCC, the concerned candidate got a deemed/paid quota seat in DY Patil Deemed to be University, Navi Mumbai.

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Her grievance is that even though she never submitted enrollment form or the other mandatory documents, affidavits and undertakings, she was shown to be a joined candidate only on the basis of her paying the partial fee. She claimed that she was shown as a joined candidate even though she had informed the college about her inability of bearing the financial expenditure.

Approaching the top court bench she alleged that the college had refused released her original documents. She also argued in her plea that even if it is assumed that she had deposited a huge amount of Rs 25 lakhs and got admitted on the basis of the provisional allotment letter, the maximum amount that can be forfeited as security deposit is Rs 2 lakhs.

Therefore, she urged the court to issue directions upon the college to release/refund the amount deposited by her and release her original documents.

As per the latest media report by Live Law, the plea was filed through Advocate Charu Mathur, who mentioned in the plea, "Thus, this is a clear case of unjust enrichment by an educational institution."