HC refuses stay on final year UG medical exams in Maharashtra

The Bombay High Court on Saturdayrefused to stay examinations in physical mode of final yearundergraduate medical students scheduled to begin inMaharashtra on September 8.

A division bench of Justices A A Sayed and S P Tavadewas hearing a petition filed by nine undergraduate medicalstudents of various streams of the Maharashtra University ofHealth Science.

The petition challenged the circular issued on August21 by MUHC pertaining to holding of physical mode ofexamination for final year students.

“In our view, the petitioners have approached thecourt at the eleventh hour. Hence, we are not inclined togrant any interim relief of staying the examination,” thecourt said in its order.

The bench also referred to the order passed by theSupreme Court on August 17 refusing to postpone the JEE-Mainand NEET exams and noting that though there is a pandemicsituation, life has to go on and the career of students cannotbe put in peril for long.

The court posted the petition for further hearing onSeptember 17.

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