Student body seeks fresh probe into 'mass NEET PG admission cancellations' at Maha's medical college
Maharashtra: A student's organisation has demanded a fresh investigation into the 'mass admission cancellations' at Dr NY Tasgaonkar Institute of Medical Sciences (NITIMS) in Round 3 of NEET PG counselling 2025.
Several candidates had requested the withdrawal of their PG seats after securing admission under the NRI quota at NITIMS, a private medical college.
Medical Dialogues had earlier reported that A total of 18 postgraduate medical candidates at a private medical college in Maharashtra cancelled their admissions. Following this, the Maharashtra Common Entrance Test (Maha CET) cell called for an investigation into the 'unusual' en masse cancellations.
Subsequently, the medical college petitioned the Bombay High Court (HC) for a special institute-level round to fill the vacant seats. The court accepted the petition on Thursday, and the special round was scheduled for Friday and Saturday.
Candidates requested the withdrawal of their names more than a month after enrolling under the Institute (Management) and Non-Resident Indian (NRI) quota during the third and final regular round of MD/MS admissions at Dr NY Tasgaonkar Institute of Medical Sciences (NYTIMS), Karjat (Raigad).
Thereafter, a committee constituted by the Directorate of Medical Education and Research (DMER) investigated the 'unusual' en masse cancellation of admissions under the institutional and NRI quotas at the NY Tasgaonkar Institute of Medical Sciences in Karjat and gave the medical college a clean chit.
In this regard, Pune leader of the student body Maharashtra Navnirman Vidyarthi Sena (MNVS), sent a letter to the Maharashtra CET Cell. In the letter, the leader stated that the complaint revealed "systematic and premeditated manipulation" of the centralised medical admission process and the "misuse" of the judicial process, solely to convert merit-based public seats into "institutionally controlled" admissions.
Meanwhile, according to the official statement, the student body has alleged that such a pattern cannot exist in the merit-based counselling process and it points towards “pre-decided” admissions by the institute, report Careers360.
“The admissions were clearly not genuine admissions but a temporary occupation of seats for blocking purposes. After the retention of seats, the official vacancy matrix reflected zero vacancies for NITIMS”, the statement added.
The student body also said that “organised seat blocking” amounts to “legal violation” and amounts to admission fraud and misuse of the admission process. The student body further alleged that the institution had filed a writ petition in the Bombay HC even before the admissions were cancelled, which is direct proof of “prior information”.
Additionally, the student body has requested the National Medical Commission (NMC) to conduct an "immediate special investigation" into the admission irregularities and initiate disciplinary action. They also requested an examination of students' admission records, demand draft transactions, and the writ petition filed by the institute.
But, if immediate action is not taken, the student group will have to approach the High Court under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, and seek a court-monitored inquiry, independent investigation and regulatory directions to cancel the admissions.
