The Delhi High Court on Tuesday sought responses of the Centre and the Medical Council of India (MCI) on a PIL seeking setting aside of a government notification which bars persons with more than 80 per cent disability from being admitted to undergraduate medical programmes, like MBBS.
A bench of Chief Justice Rajendra Menon and Justice V K Rao issued notice to the MCI and the ministries of Health and Social Justice and Empowerment and sought their replies to the petition by April 4, the next date of hearing.
The plea by Satendra Singh, an associate professor in the Department of Physiology at Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital, has contended that the February 4 notification has been issued without any application of mind and was "highly irrational, arbitrary and discriminatory"