Gujarat HC stays order for extra round to fill 3 MBBS seats
Gujarat: A month after the Gujarat High Court directed the authorities to conduct an additional round of admissions for three vacant MBBS seats, the Court has stayed its order.
According to the TOI report, the bench has stayed its order upon the National Medical Commission (NMC) submitting an application stating that the court's "order runs contrary to the directions issued by the Supreme Court".
On January 6, the High Court directed the NMC, the Medical Counselling Committee (MCC), and the Admission Committee for Professional Undergraduate Medical Courses (ACPC) to conduct another round of admissions to fill the three vacant MBBS seats. This order was issued in response to a petition filed by the MEDGUJ Association of Gujarat Medical Colleges.
As per the TOI media news report, the HC ordered that the respondents are directed to go for one more stray vacant round of admission to fill up the remaining three seats of the first year MBBS course.
With this, the admission round was held, and the vacant seats were filled. This left vacant seats in the Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) course, prompting the association to file another petition.
But, a month after the medical seats were filled, the NMC filed a review petition. Its counsel, Vikas Nair, said on Monday that the HC passed the January 6 order without hearing the NMC, and "therefore, the lawyer did not get a chance to explain that the order was against the Supreme Court's directions."
Hearing this, Justice Desai said, "Accordingly, the order dated January 6, 2026 passed in Special Civil Application No. 40/2026 shall be stayed till further orders."
However, this was the association's second such petition. Previously, in December 2025, the association had first demanded a stray round to fill 57 vacant seats. After this round, three students withdrew from the admission process, and the association filed a second petition.
