HC regularises admn of 93 non-CET homeopathy pupils
Mumbai: Bombay high court on Tuesday regularised admissions of 93 non-CET students admitted to ' Bachelor of Homeopathic Medicine and Surgery ' courses in the state in academic years 2013-14 and 2014-15 after the first round of CET, based on vacant seats, holding that it was a 'peculiar case'.In 2013-14, DMER first opposed admission to students who did not take the CET.HC said its decision in a petition filed by Association of Management of Homoeopathic Medical Colleges of Maharashtra in 2014 and others on behalf of these students cannot be cited as a precedent by other students.The division bench of Justices AS Chandurkar and MM Sathaye pronounced its ruling and accepted the association's plea to regularise admission of the 93 students governed by norms as permissible at the time.HC, after hearing counsel Pooja Thorat for the petitioners, and opposing counsel R V Govilkar for MUHS and Rui Rodrigues for the Centre, recorded that the Central Council for Homeopathy has taken a clear stand that minimum qualification for admission in a homeopathic college is passing Std 12 or HSC exam.
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