INTERIM RELIEF given to students of private medical college

INTERIM RELIEF given to students: The bench granted interim relief to 70 students of private Al-Razi Medical College and

directed the Khyber Medical University (KMU) to temporarily allow them to appear in the MBBS examination.

The bench also directed the registrar of Pakistan Medical and Dental Council to make provisional registration of the said students.

The court was hearing two separate writ petitions one filed by the said students requesting the bench to allow them to appear in the examination.

They also requested that just like the court had issued order in cases of several other students early this year and directed that those should be adjusted in recognised medical colleges and that the court could also order their admission in other recognised and registered colleges.

The students claimed that they were not aware that the college was not recognised and now when the MBBS examination had approached the Khyber Medical University was not willing to include them in the exam.

The second petition is filed by Al-Razi Medical College stating that the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council had cancelled their registration in an arbitrary manner. Advocate Iftikhar Gillani and Shmail Ahmad Butt appeared for the college and contended that the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council had no authority to cancel registration of a medical college.

A few months ago, around 100 students of the college were adjusted in six recognised medical colleges by the Khyber Medical University on the directives of the high court.

Published in Dawn, July 10th , 2014