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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday refused to accord urgent hearing and grant interim stay on the operation of recently-promulgated Ordinance which allows states to continue with their separate entrance tests for MBBS and BDS courses for academic year 2016-17.
“Let us not create further confusion on medical entrance test and let there be some certainty for the students. Moreover, this (Ordinance) is there for one year only,” a vacation Bench of Justices P. C Pant and D. Y Chandrachud said while declining urgent hearing of the plea filed by an Indore-based doctor on the issue.
“Let the matter come up for hearing after the (summer) vacation,” it said.
The Court prima facie did not agree with the submission of Senior Advocate Vivek Tankha, appearing for petitioner Anand Rai who also claims to be a whistle blower in the Vyapam scam, that the government was not competent to nullify the judicial order by promulgating the Ordinance.
Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi, appearing for the Centre, said the Ordinance, which keeps state boards outside the purview of single medical entrance test NEET, is only for this academic year and the government was well within its right to come up with it. PTI
