SC for reservation of 10 pc seats in AIIMS

New Delhi, Apr 21: The Supreme Court today directed the Union Health Ministry to keep 10 per cent seats in each subject in abeyance for the reserved category students in admission to Post-Graduate medical science courses in All India Institute of Medical Sceinces (AIIMS).

The bench comprsing Mr Justice K G Balakrisnan and Mr Justice D K Jain issued the directions when the matter was mentioned before the bench contending that the first counselling for admissions to PG medical science courses was to start today and unless and until interim relief was granted by this court no seat will be left for reserved category students.

The matter has been listed for hearing on Monday.

Earlier, the Centre had reversed its decision to cancel the All India Entrance Test after allegations of wide spread copying in the test when Supreme Court showed its disinclination against such a stop. The CBI detected only 20 cases of localised cheating in the test confined only to Chennai and Delhi centres. The Court felt that a test in which about 40,000 candidates appeared could not be scrapped on the basis of 20 cases of cheating.

The court directed that these 20 candidates shall be debarred and if further evidence was collected against any other candidate during investigation, he or she may be debarred. About a dozen arrests were made by the CBI in this connection and those taken into custody included senior professors and faculty members.

UNI