- Home
- Medical news & Guidelines
- Anesthesiology
- Cardiology and CTVS
- Critical Care
- Dentistry
- Dermatology
- Diabetes and Endocrinology
- ENT
- Gastroenterology
- Medicine
- Nephrology
- Neurology
- Obstretics-Gynaecology
- Oncology
- Ophthalmology
- Orthopaedics
- Pediatrics-Neonatology
- Psychiatry
- Pulmonology
- Radiology
- Surgery
- Urology
- Laboratory Medicine
- Diet
- Nursing
- Paramedical
- Physiotherapy
- Health news
- Fact Check
- Bone Health Fact Check
- Brain Health Fact Check
- Cancer Related Fact Check
- Child Care Fact Check
- Dental and oral health fact check
- Diabetes and metabolic health fact check
- Diet and Nutrition Fact Check
- Eye and ENT Care Fact Check
- Fitness fact check
- Gut health fact check
- Heart health fact check
- Kidney health fact check
- Medical education fact check
- Men's health fact check
- Respiratory fact check
- Skin and hair care fact check
- Vaccine and Immunization fact check
- Women's health fact check
- AYUSH
- State News
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands
- Andhra Pradesh
- Arunachal Pradesh
- Assam
- Bihar
- Chandigarh
- Chattisgarh
- Dadra and Nagar Haveli
- Daman and Diu
- Delhi
- Goa
- Gujarat
- Haryana
- Himachal Pradesh
- Jammu & Kashmir
- Jharkhand
- Karnataka
- Kerala
- Ladakh
- Lakshadweep
- Madhya Pradesh
- Maharashtra
- Manipur
- Meghalaya
- Mizoram
- Nagaland
- Odisha
- Puducherry
- Punjab
- Rajasthan
- Sikkim
- Tamil Nadu
- Telangana
- Tripura
- Uttar Pradesh
- Uttrakhand
- West Bengal
- Medical Education
- Industry
NEET PG: Doctors move Supreme Court demanding free exit after AIQ Round 2 Counselling
New Delhi: Challenging the practice of imposing penalty on doctors for leaving seats in the middle of counselling, several aspirants of NEET-PG 2021, the centralized common entrance test for admission to postgraduate medical courses, have recently approached the Supreme Court and sought permission for free exit from the already joined seats pursuant to the 2nd round of counseling in the All India Quota seats.
Apart from challenging the penalty, the petitioners have further sought directions so that candidates who desire to resign or vacate seats joined during the 2nd round of AIQ counselling are allowed to exit without paying the penalty and those vacant seats get added up to the stray vacancy round, other special rounds of counselling, or in the subsequent NEET-PG counselling.
Although the petition was primarily listed before the top court bench comprising of Justices LN Rao and B R Gavai, the bench on Monday directed the petitioners to take up the matter before the bench comprising of Justice Chandrachud, adds Live Law.
Filing the plea through Advocate Salvador Santosh Rebello, the petitioners contended that imposition of such penalty on a student who exits the seat immediately without actually working there, or a student who has recently joined, violates Article 14 and Article 21 of the Constitution of India.
"Respondent States levy such huge and hefty penalties under a fallacious pretext that if a candidate is permitted to exit or leave a seat after joining the same goes waste and therefore the aforesaid hefty penalty is levied. However, it is submitted that such seats can always be put up in the stray round and / or any special round of counseling and / or in the subsequent NEET – PG counseling," read the petition.
It has been argued by the petitioners that such seats left by the students would not get wasted even if the States stop imposing penalties. They contended that such seats can be put up in the stray round and / or any special round of counseling and / or in the subsequent NEET – PG counseling.
At this outset, the petition was quoted stating by Live Law, "The said seat can always be put up in the next rounds i.e NEET PG 2022 – 2023, and or the subsequent exam proposed to be conducted in the month of May 2022. Imposing of huge, hefty penalties are arbitrary and harsh on the students who desire to avail the best seats for advancing their medical career and serve the nation and humankind."
The petitioners are being represented by Senior Advocate Siddharth Luthra along with Advocates Anmol Kheta, Tanya Srivastava , Raghav Sharma, and Mitali Gupta.
Medical Dialogues had earlier reported that a group of doctors recently moved to the Supreme Court as they alleged seat blocking and sought permission from the Apex Court to participate in the mop-up round of counselling with a free exit option.
Also Read: Seat Blocking: Doctors move SC seeking permission to appear in NEET PG Mop-up Round
Barsha completed her Master's in English from the University of Burdwan, West Bengal in 2018. Having a knack for Journalism she joined Medical Dialogues back in 2020. She mainly covers news about medico legal cases, NMC/DCI updates, medical education issues including the latest updates about medical and dental colleges in India. She can be contacted at editorial@medicaldialogues.in.