Bombay HC refuses to revoke doctor's MBBS admission based on 'false' info: 'National loss'

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₹50,000 for false representation, added the report. ALSO READ: Jet Airways founder Naresh Goyal gets interim medical bail amid money laundering probe “The Petitioner has completed the course of MBBS and therefore, it would not be proper at this stage to withdraw the qualification obtained by the Petitioner moreso when the Petitioner has qualified as a Doctor.

In our country, where the ratio of the Doctors to the population is very low, any action to withdraw the qualification obtained by the Petitioner would be a national loss since the citizens of this country would be deprived of one Doctor", LiveLaw quoted the bench as saying. “We are conscious of high competition in admission to medical course and we are also conscious about high expenses to be incurred to enrol for the said course under the Open Category.

However, that would not justify that the student should obtain the unfair means nor would it justify the action of the parents to be a part of the unfair means for getting the admission under the OBC Category", the court said. The Bombay High Court was hearing a writ petition challenging the cancellation of the petitioner's admission to an MBBS course based on grounds of an invalid NCL certificate.

ALSO READ: Narendra Dabholkar murder case: Pune court acquits 3 accused, 2 others sent to life imprisonment According to details, the petitioner enrolled in the MBBS course at Sion's Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College and Hospital in the academic year 2012-13. She used the OBC category and cited her OBC-NCL Certificate.

However, when an inquiry was initiated against all students admitted under the OBC category, she was found guilty. Apart from this, the enquiry committee of the medical college found her father's