Hyderabad High Court directs private medical colleges to fill B' seats
Hyderabad: Making it clear that the ‘C’ category NRI seats in private medical colleges in AP and TS cannot exceed the limit fixed by the Supreme Court, the Hyderabad High Court on Thursday ordered the colleges to fill all the management quota ‘B’ Category seats, by second counselling if necessary.
A division bench, comprising Justice V. Ramasubramanian and Justice Anis, was granting the order while dealing with a petition challenging the state governments permitting the managements to convert ‘B’ category seats into ‘C’ category (NRI quota) in the guise of some students who are allotted ‘B’ category seats not reporting in time to join the colleges.
The petitioners told the court that fee for ‘B’’category seats was Rs 11 lakh per year, whereas the fee for ‘C’ category was Rs 33 lakh to Rs 55 lakh in both the states. They said that the managements were converting the unfilled ‘B’ category seats to ‘C’ category to make money.
They contended that when second counselling was done for ‘A’ category seats, the same method should be adopted for the ‘B’ category seats too. The bench felt that in view of Supreme Court judgment such conversion was not permissible.
The Hyderabad High Court on Thursday sought to know from the TS government under which Section of the Law cases pertaining to TS employees pending before the AP Administrative Tribunal would be transferred to the High Court in the backdrop of the Centre’s notification deleting TS from the jurisdiction of the AP AT.
A division bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Ramesh Ranganathan and Justice U. Durga Prasad Rao was hearing two petitions moved by P.V. Krishnaiah and B. Kiran Kumar, both practicing advocates of the city, challenging the Centre’s notification issued on September 15, 2016 deleting TS from the jurisdiction of the Tribunal.
The bench pointed that as per Section 29 of the Administrative Tribunals Act, the High Court had empowered to cases to the Tribunal, but how could the Tribunal transfer cases to the High Court.
K. Lakshmi Narasimha, counsel appearing for the petitioners, contended that the Centre cannot issue the notification without amending Section 75 of the AP Reorganisation Act 2014.
TS advocate-general K. Ramakrishna Reddy contended that as per the judgment of the Madras High Court, there was a provision for abolishing the Tribunal and the petitioners have no locus to question the notification of the Centre as they are not parties before the tribunal. He said the High Court has power to deal with disputes between both the states and pass appropriate orders.
While adjourning the case to September 29, the bench asked the AG to place the judgment of the Madras High Court before it.
The Hyderabad High Court on Thursday directed the Mahbubnagar district collector to pay compensation and extend all rehabilitation benefits to the Project Displaced Families in Aluru village of Gattu mandal of the district that stands to be submerged due to the Ryalampadu Balancing Reservoir within a week.Justice Suresh Kumar Kait was dealing with two petition moved by Harijan Nagesh and Harijan Maldkal and 223 villagers of Aluru.
The judge sought an explanation from district collector Sridevi, joint collector Ramakrishna and other officials who appeared before the court pursuant to its direction over the delay in extending benefits to the affected families despite the court order.
When the officials started blaming each other for the delay, the judge expressed dismay and directed the collector to pay compensation by depositing the amount into the accounts of the petitioners and extend all the rehabilitation benefits to them within a week.
The petitioners told the court that though the government issued the GO 68 on April 8, 2005 for disbursal of their entitlements under R&R package, the authorities failed to extend the benefits to them.
They said that 35 of them have not even been allotted plots in the new R&R Centre that is supposed to house 1465 families displaced from the old Aluru village.
