Court directs hearing impaired girl to be given MBBS admission

After hearing the writ petition filed by the girl, Rajashree Khaund, yesterday the court directed the director of medical education, Assam, and principal Jorhat Medical College, to offer her admission immediately.

Justice Anima Hazarika gave the directive after hearing the petition and considering the various decisions passed by the High Court and Supreme Court as well as provisions of the Persons with Disabilities 1995 and Medical Council of India guidelines.

Justice Hazarika held "there is no escape from the further inevitable conclusion that hearing impairment of the writ petitioner per se cannot subject her to any disqualification for getting admission into the MBBS course which she is otherwise entitled to by dint of her selection in terms of merit."

Selected in the state-conducted Combined Entrance Examination for the MBBS course, 2012 and placed in the sixth position of unreserved general candidate on merit basis, Rajashree was denied admission on the ground that she was suffering from hearing impairment.