Mumbai: A Mazgaon-based medical student, whose enrollment in a Pune institute was hanging in the balance after the board nullified it saying that the institute admitted him after the cut-off date, received some relief from the High Court last week, which chided the institute for the goof-up. The court snubbed the institutes justification that it admitted the 28-year-old afterward since it could not get any candidates within the deadline set by the board due to the swine flu panic.
According to Dr Sardar Mukhtar Tabishs petition, the Lokmanya Medical Foundation published an ad for a diploma course in radiology on July 14, 2009, saying that the last date for enrollment was August 14. However, the ad allegedly failed to draw in any student due to the flu scare gripping the city, the institute told the court.
So the LMF issued a second ad on August 22, eight days after the last date of enrollment. Tabish responded to the second ad. Though the cut-off date had passed, the LMF allowed him provisional admission on September 10. They did not charge him any fees, since that would require the National Board of Examinations to recognise his registration. And as far as the board was concerned, the last date of admission had already elapsed.
To Tabishs surprise, the board refused to recognise him as a student on the grounds that he was admitted after the cut-off date. The board contended that it had published a notice specifying
01:08 PM, May 16, 2012
