The court capped the management quota fees for MBBS students at Rs.20,00,000/- per year, affirming equitable treatment following the closure of associated colleges due to illegal admissions.

ORDER :

D.K. SINGH, J.

In WP.Nos.9394/2024 & 10382/2024

Heard Mr. P.P.Hedge, learned Senior Counsel assisted by Mrs. Rachitha Rajashekar, learned counsel and Smt. Hiremath Akkamahadevi, learned counsel for the petitioners; Mr. Rajashekar.S., learned Central Government Counsel for the UOI, [Union of India]; Mr. Sudev Hegde, learned Additional Government Advocate for the State; Mr. N. Khetty, learned standing counsel for NMC, [ National Medical Commission ] and Medical Assessment and Rating Board; Mr. N.K. Ramesh, learned counsel for the KEA, [Karnataka Examinations Authority]; Mrs. Farah Fathima, learned counsel for RGHUS, [Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences]; Mr. G.B.Sharath Gowda, learned counsel for the KIMS, [Kempegowda Institute of Medical Sciences].

2. These two petitions have been filed by the petitioners - students who were admitted in MBBS Course for the academic session - 2022-23 in G R Medical College , Hospital and Research Centre (for short 'the G. R. Medical College') wherein the admissions were made contrary to the prospectus issued by the NMC, [ National Medical Commission ] and against the existing prescribed guidelines, and the NMC directed the cancellation of the admissions and took punitive action against the G R Medical College , thereby the said college was closed down.

3. The students who had taken admission in the said G R Medical College were accommodated in different Medical Colleges/Institutions. Some of the colleges where the some of the students were transferred did not permit the students to take admission and they were retransferred and accommodated in the different colleges. The petitioners in these petitions have been accommodated in the different colleges and they have paid the fees. They do not have any subsisting grievance.

4. Learned counsel for the NMC submits that keeping in mind the interest of the students; we have no objection for the students pursuing their MBBS course from the transferee and re-transferee colleges.

5. Considering the said stand of the NMC, nothing survives in these writ petitions and accordingly, the same are hereby disposed of.

6. Pending I.As. if any, shall also stand disposed of.

In WP.NO.26727/2024

1. In this petition, the petitioner was initially transferred from the G R Medical College to Respondent No.6 i.e., Shyamanuru Shivashankarappa Institute Of Medical Sciences by the KEA, [Karnataka Examinations Authority]. However, it appears that the said medical college/Institution demanded more fees than which was paid in the G R Medical College and hence, the petitioner sought for accommodation in some other college. In pursuance of the request made by the petitioner, the KEA allotted respondent No.7-Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Medical College, K. G. Halli, Bangalore to the petitioner, and the petitioner has taken admission in said college.

2. In view of the aforesaid fact that the petitioner has been accommodated in pursuance of her request in Dr. B.R.Ambedkar Medical College, nothing survives in this writ petition and accordingly, the writ petition stands disposed of

3. Pending I.As. if any, shall also stand disposed of.

WP No. 10382 of 2024

1. The petitioner was allotted G R Medical College , respondent No.4, by the Karnataka Examinations Authority to study MBBS Course under the Management Quota for the Academic Year- 2021-22. The NMC directed the said college to be closed down for want of infrastructure and other facilities as well as the admissions made illegally (allegedly). The similarly situated students (150) whose admissions were cancelled had approached this Court by filing the petitions and this Court directed the State Government/KEA to accommodate these 150 students in different Medical Colleges/Institutions, over and above, their sanctioned intake of the students to save the career of the students earlier admitted in G.R.Medical College. The petitioner had paid fee of Rs.20,80,000/- in G R Medical College for pursuing her second year of MBBS Course and thereafter she