A division bench of the Hyderabad High Court comprising Justice V.Ramasubramanian and Justice T. Rajani on Thursday directed the authorities to put on hold the common counselling for admission to Super Specialities courses in medicine, for seats in colleges affiliated to NTR and Kaloji health universities.
The bench was passing these interim orders in a writ petition filed by one Satish Kumar and others. They challenged a letter issued by the Centre directing both the varsities to conduct a common counselling for all seats of NEET-Super Speciality-2017 at the national level.
The petitioners contended that admission to professional courses in the states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh were governed by the Presidential order issued in exercise of the power conferred by Article 371-D of the Constitution and that since these Presidential orders are to have effect notwithstanding anything contained in any other part of the Constitution, the respondents are not entitled to conduct a common counselling at the national level, for the seats coming within the control of these two universities.
The bench took note of the fact that the challenge to the reservation created in terms of Article 371-D was rejected by the Supreme Court. The bench stayed the national level admission process for the seats in these two universities and directed the respondents to file counter affidavits .The case will be listed on August 23.