Responding to a petition filed by Kumar Kshitiz Abhinav seeking a stay on the admission process the directed the state government, IGIMS and Bihar Combined Entrance Competitive Examination (BCECE) to file their replies within a week.

Abhinav, who could not make it to the BCECE, had applied for appearing in the proposed all-India written examination for admission to IGIMS.

The IGIMS had published an advertisement on July 18 inviting applications for the entrance test. But only a few days later, that is on August 3, the Board of Governors of IGIMS decided that admissions to the newly introduced MBBS course at the institute would be made through second round of counselling of BCECE.

The petitioner prayed to the Court to ask the IGIMS to conduct the entrance test. He claimed that depriving him the opportunity to take the examination would seal his chances of getting admission to the institute.

The counsel of the respondents submitted that according to the Section 2D of the BCECE Act, 1995, the performance of the students in the examination can be taken into account for admission to any institute managed and financed by the state government.

As the IGIMS is very much managed and financed by the state government the state government can admit students to it through the merit list of BCECE.

It needs to be recalled that health minister, Ashwinin Choubey, is the chairman of the Board of Governors. The health department’s principal secretary is a member of the Board.

A similar petition was filed by advocate Dwivedy Surendra. The petitioner-in-person sought direction from the Court that admission to the institute should be made through written examination only, as advertised by the IGIMS earlier.

About 10,000 students had applied online for the examination, Surendra said.Medical Council of India (MCI) had given its nod to IGIMS to start MBBS course in June. The institute was given permission to admit 100 students.

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