SC allows visually impaired doctor to appear in MD Psychiatry counselling
New Delhi, February 19: The Supreme Court on Saturday granted interim relief to a visually impaired doctor by allowing him to appear in state counselling for admission for MD Psychiatry.
A panel of justices DY Chandrachud and Surya Kant ruled that pending further orders, the provisional allotment of a seat to the petitioner in the MD Psychiatry course at Mumbai's Topiwala National Medical College shall not be disturbed.
"Pending further orders, the provisional allotment of a seat to the petitioner in the MD Psychiatry course at Topiwala National Medical College, Mumbai shall not be disturbed to his detriment and the petitioner would be permitted to participate in the ongoing process of counselling, " the bench stated and issued the order to concerned respondents.
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The Court was hearing a petition filed by Iyer Seetharaman Venugoplan who is a young MBBS doctor with 100 per cent visual impairment in both eyes and has cleared NEET- PG entrance exam.
Bombay High Court had declined the interim plea of the petitioner to allow him to participate in the counselling process of NEET for Post Graduate Medical Courses by its order dated February 2, 2022. Following this, the petitioner challenged that order before the Supreme Court.
The Petitioner was represented by senior advocate C S Vaidyanathan, briefed by a team of Nandini Gore, Sonia Nigam and Sarthak Gaur, advocates from Karanjawala and Co.
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