Thread by @barandbench

#SupremeCourt bench led by Justice L Nageswara Rao dictates orders in a plea by students pursuing MBBS who were denied to appear in First year examination by AIIMS Gorakhpur on grounds of lack of attendance. #AIIMS #Covid19

Bench assembles
#SupremeCourt

Justice Rao: Petitioners say after COVID19 management asked students to leave campus. Students say some of them come from remote areas and thus could not attend..after college reopened and those who could not attend to fulfill minimum attendance, students attended

Justice Rao: AIIMS Bhubaneswar Odisha and Patna had conducted first year exams without insisting on min attendance. AIIMS Gorakhpur wanted to be treated at par.

Justice Rao: Students contend that they will lose an academic year.

Justice Rao: Petitioners shall be permitted to take the exam for first year professional MBBS course. The management shall hold test for the above named persons without insisting on minimum attendance required. If passed they will be promoted to next year.

Justice Rao: This order is passed in the backdrop of peculiar circumstance of COVID19 and would not be a precedent. Exam to be held as soon as possible. If there is delay approach the court

#SupremeCourt