Quota misuse for NEET-PG seats? SC seeks report from Haryana on students’ conversion to Buddhism
Two students approached the Supreme Court, seeking admission to a post-graduate medical course at a Uttar Pradesh-based college under the Buddhist minority quota.
Members of Rastriya Chatra Panchayat hold a protest against New UGC act and demanding to roll back New UGC act, in Lucknow on wednesday. (Express Photo by Vishal Srivastav) The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the Haryana chief secretary to furnish information regarding the alleged religious conversion of two general category students who approached it seeking admission for a post-graduate medical course under the Buddhist minority quota, claiming that they had converted to Buddhism.
Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant, presiding over a two-judge bench, expressed doubts over the students’ version and wondered if it was not a fraudulent attempt to gain admission.
Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant, presiding over a two-judge bench, expressed doubts over the students’ version and wondered if it was not a fraudulent attempt to gain admission. (Express Photo by Vishal Srivastav)
The bench, also comprising Justice Joymalya Bagchi, was hearing petitions by the two students who sought its intervention for admission under the Buddhist minority quota at the Uttar Pradesh-based Subharti Medical College, a Buddhist minority educational institution.
Noting that they belonged to the Punia caste, the CJI said Punia can be Scheduled Caste or general category Jat. To this, the petitioners’ counsel said they were Jats. “Then, how you become (minority)?” the CJI asked. (Express Photo by Vishal Srivastav)
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