CET issue: K'taka may move Apex Court against HC ruling

Bangalore, June 30 (UNI) The Karnataka Government is contemplating moving the Supreme Court to challenge the Karnataka High Court's recent ruling that marks obtained by students in PUC need not be considered for awarding CET rankings for admissions into medical and dental colleges.

Higher Education Minister D H Shankaramurthy informed this in the Legislative Council today after presenting the Karnataka Professional Educational Institutions (Regulation of Admissions and Fixation of fee) Bill-2006.

He said the High Court, in its order, had upheld the Medical Council of India (MCI)'s guidelines as per which marks obtained in CET only need to be considered for awarding the rankings for the admissions into medical and dental courses and given a go by to the practice of clubbing both marks obtained PUC and CET for deciding the ranking.

The Minister said for Engineering courses, the marks obtained in both CET and PUC would be considered for awarding rankings.

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