Madras HC Awards Rs 5 Lakh Compensation To BDS Aspirant
NDTV
Proportioning the compensation amount, the judge said the secretaries of health and the selection panel should jointly pay Rs 3 lakh and the college Rs 2 lakh to the petitioner
The Madras High Court has awarded a compensation of Rs 5 lakh to a SC woman candidate, who was denied admission in a private dental college in Tiruchengode in Namakkal district in 2014 due to the inaction on the part of the authorities concerned. Justice S M Subramaniam held the then secretaries of the Tamil Nadu Health department, the Selection Committee and the KSR Dental College responsible for the denial of admission in BDS course to A Jayaranjani and directed them to pay the compensation within four weeks. Proportioning the compensation amount, the judge said the secretaries of health and the selection panel should jointly pay Rs 3 lakh and the college Rs 2 lakh to the petitioner. The judge was allowing a writ petition from the girl recently.
According to the petitioner, she belongs to the Scheduled Caste community and her father passed away in 2011 and her mother, a widow, is supporting the family. She had secured 1,063 marks in the higher secondary public examination conducted in March 2014 and applied for MBBS/BDS course.
She was selected and offered admission in BDS and allotted to the KSR Dental College in Tiruchengodu. The order of allotment was issued by the Selection Committee at 4 PM on September 30, 2014. On account of the late issuance of admission card, the petitioner was unable to reach the college the same, which happened to be the last date for admission. However, the next morning she, along with her grandfather, reported to the institution but instead of verifying the certificates and admitting her in the course, the college Administrative Officer refused admission.
The petitioner showed the allotment order issued by the Selection Committee and in spite of that, they refused to admit her. Thus, the petitioner is constrained to move the present writ petition for a direction to the college and other authorities to admit her in BDS Course. The judge noted the result of the Selection Committee was communicated to the dental college through fax message. However, the college denied admission to the petitioner on the very next day.
