HC junks plea for late medical admission registration, upholds sanctity of academic timelines

Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court recently emphasised the sanctity of academic timelines, while dismissing a plea from a student who had missed the deadline to register for MBBS or BDS admissions under the Management Quota 'B' category for the academic year 2025-2026.

Stating that a student's oversight could not be allowed to disrupt the entire counselling schedule, the HC bench comprising Chief Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh and Justice G M Mohiuddin denied granting relief to the petitioner student.

Filing the plea, the petitioner sought a direction to the Warangal-based KNRUHS to permit her to register online and exercise the web option in the ongoing or upcoming round of counselling, arguing that she had "inadvertently" failed to do so.

Medical Dialogues had earlier reported that the plea was filed by a 19-year-old student who hails from the Khammam district. He argued that he inadvertently failed to register for admission under the specified quota. Further, he submitted a representation to the University on August 21, 2025, requesting to be allowed to register for counselling.

However, getting no response from the University, the student approached the High Court bench seeking relief. Recently, the Telangana High Court issued directions to Kaloji Naryana Rao University of Health Sciences (KNRUHS) to consider the representation of the student.

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Now, as per the latest media report by the Indian Express, the petitioner's counsel pleaded with the court to allow the student to submit a representation to the University, citing a similar order from a previous case.

On the other hand, the counsel for the University, T Sharath, opposed the plea and stated that the application dates had long been closed and the counselling process, which commenced on September 15, 2025, was already underway. Referring to this, he argued that entertaining the application at this stage would be a “futile exercise”.

After taking note of the arguments, the bench agreed with the submissions made by the University, highlighting the importance of strict adherence to the academic calendar.

At this outset, the Division Bench of the HC remarked, "We are of the view that since the admission to MBBS or BDS course has a definite timeline required to be adhered to by the University and the cut-off dates for application or counselling are sacrosanct, there is no point in asking the University to consider the petitioner’s application for fresh registration."

Ultimately, the bench concluded that it was not "inclined to issue any directions to that effect" and accordingly, it dismissed the plea.

At the conclusion of the hearing, the petitioner's counsel made a final submission and urged the court that, in the event the registration date for the courses was to be extended, the petitioner should be granted liberty to apply.

Acknowledging this, the bench reiterated that if such an extension were to occur, it would be open for the petitioner to make an application, which would then be considered by the authorities "in accordance with law".

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