Apex court struck down the plea to feature in-service quota seats of NEET super speciality 2021 surrendered by province

The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to entertain a plea seeking a direction to feature 92 “in-service quota seats” of NEET super speciality 2021 surrendered by Tamil Nadu within the newly added seats and make them available to all or any candidates regardless of their joining in earlier rounds.

A vacation bench of Justices C.T. Ravikumar and Sudhanshu Dhulia said the highest court on May 9 had allowed mop-up round for all the unfilled/stray/vacant super-speciality seats subject to the condition that any doctor who had joined seats earlier won't be allowed to affix.

"We cannot go against the judgement. When there is a specific direction, we cannot. When the law is laid down by this court, now merely because you are not a celebration to the judgement…

"We don't think that we should always proceed with the contentions raised by the petitioner any more in light of order gone this court...We have no hesitation to carry that petitioner isn't entitled to hunt such prayer during this direction. In short, such writ petition must fail and is dismissed," the bench said.

The top court was hearing a plea filed by Kaviyarasan M.P. et al. seeking a direction to feature 92 “in-service quota seats” of NEET super speciality 2021 surrendered by province within the newly added seats and make them available to all or any candidates regardless of their joining in earlier rounds.

On May 9, 2022, the counsel appearing on behalf of Madras had told the apex court that the 92 unfilled seats of the in-service quota of the State shall be surrendered this year to the All India Quota (AIQ).

Additional peace officer Aishwarya Bhati had stated that a mop up round are going to be held for completing the method of admission to super specialty medical courses, occasioned by the surrender of 92 seats by Madras to the AIQ.

The top court had then said, "The mop up round shall be held for all the unfilled/stray/vacant super specialty seats subject to the condition that any doctor who has joined a seat within the earlier round shall not be eligible for participating within the mop up round. Since the mop round is being held, an appropriate extension of your time could also be granted for completing the admissions."