The petitioner filed writ Petition (Civil) No. 986/2013 titled
as ‘Bonnie Anna George vs Medical council of India and others’ in Supreme Court
to direct Christian Medical College, Ludhiana and the Medical Council of India
to permit her to shift her P.G. course from M.D. Pathology to M.D. General
Medicine in the available vacant seat under the N.R.I. quota within the
College. The college, with some motive, deprived her the opportunity to opt for
the available N.R.I. seat in M.D. General Medicine during the third Counseling.
However, keeping in view that the admission schedule fixed by Medical Council
of India and by Supreme Court is being scrupulously followed, Court declined to
violate the said schedule. But at the same time, taking into account the grave
injustice caused to the Petitioner for which the entire responsibility lies on
the college, Court directed college to pay Rs.5 lakh as compensation to
petitioner for having snatched away her valuable right, apart from refunding
the sum of Rs.13,000/- which the Petitioner had to pay for her readmission to
the very same P.G. course of M.D. Pathology.
Court made it clear that college
should not harass the petitioner, by observing “ We are confident that since
the Petitioner was only fighting for her lawful rights, the same should not have
any reflection in the approach of second Respondent either directly or
indirectly which would cause any disruption in her studies or in the completion
of her course”.
The judgment was passed by bench of Justices FMI Kalifulla and
Shiva Kirti Singh on 18th September 2014.
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