Hyderabad: The Hyderabad High Court on Friday directed the NCC Directorate to pay a compensation of Rs 3 lakh to each of the petitioners for playing havoc with the system of according priority to students seeking admission into medical courses under the NCC quota.
The bench observed, “Like the quota for sportspersons, the quota for NCC cadets has become a perennial problem, with zealous parents soliciting the assistance of unscrupulous employees in the NCC Directorate and getting wrong priorities accorded, so as to gain admission to MBBS courses through short-cut methods.”
The bench said, “at least the malpractices adopted by a few officials of the Sports Authorities of both the states came to light when their houses were raided by the Anti Corruption Bureau. But since the NCC Directorate is under the control of the Union of India, the officials of the Directorate have been escaping from the clutches of law.”
The bench noted, “the cases on hand demonstrate how the local NCC Directorate has been manipulating the records, recognising and de-recognising certificates and playing havoc with the matter .”
The bench said, “We find that the petitioners have been wrongfully denied of appropriate priorities The only relief that could be granted to them is to direct the erring party to compensate the petitioners monetarily.”
