Doctor couple's plea to write final exam rejected by HC

The Madras High Court today rejected a doctor couple's plea seeking a direction to Tamil Nadu Dr.M G R Medical University and Sree Mookambika Institute of Medical Sciences to permit them take the final examination on the ground that they did not follow Medical Council of India regulations.
Justice S Vaidhyanathan said as per MCI rules, the petitioners should have completed three years of training for obtaining certain degrees (MD community Medicine/MD Bio chemistry) but they had not secured the required attendance as prescribed by MCI.
"If they are allowed to write the examination, it will set a wrong precedent to other candidates",the judge said.

He also rejected charges that the attendance register had been fabricated and altered and said "even if the argument is taken for granted, it will not come to the rescue of the petitioners as a whole on account of slight discrepancy in calculation of the number of days attended for particular two months."
The petitioners did not have post-graduate diploma also to claim concession in attendance and their contention lacked merit, the judge said.
Justice Vaidhyanathan said the rules had been made not to be broken and for the safety and better welfare of students.
Insistence on 85 per cent attendance by the University and MCI was not to create perplexity but aimed at "shaping the students in full form by imparting nook and corner, ups and downs of the course," the judge said dismissing the petition.

Petitioners V Rajasekar and his wife Y Lydia said they had completed the first and second year course and submitted their dissertation. But the college had not forwarded it to the university owing to attendance shortage. They were not allowed to write the exam in April this year, they said and sought a direction to permit them to do so.