Hyderabad: Maintaining that the students cannot be penalised for technical faults in administrative side of the regulatory bodies, the Hyderabad High Court made it clear with the Pharma Council of India (PCI) that it cannot be penalised or sent out 12 students who joined in excess of the intake of 60 permitted by the PCI for the academic year 2017-18 in the pharmacy college run by Muslim Education Social and Cultural Organisation of the city.
A division bench comprising Justice V. Ramasubramanian and Justice T. Amarnath Goud while dismissing a petition by the college management challenging the action of the PCI in refusing to approve 12 admissions made the above observation. The bench reminded that the students were admitted by virtue of interim order on August 22, 2017 at a time when there was no clarity on the stand taken by the PCI.
The bench noted that on the day, on which the interim order was passed, this Court was confronted with two orders, one by the AICTE dated April 30, 2017 and another by the University dated August 12, 2017 granting approval for an intake of 100 students.
The bench said that the PCI sanctioned only 60 seats that too after allotting 42 admissions by the EAMCT Convener to the college and management admitting 30 students under the management quota and students cannot be penalised as there was no fault on their part.
