New Delhi: In a huge setback to the Kerala government, the Supreme Court on Monday refused to review its earlier order allowing self-financing medical colleges that have not entered into seat-sharing agreements with the government to collect a fee of Rs 11 lakhs from students for this academic year.
A Bench of Justices S.A. Bobde and L. Nageswara Rao, while rejecting the review petition from the state against the order passed in respect of two medical colleges, extended this order to other colleges, which were not covered earlier. The bench passed this order on special leave petitions by medical college managements against an order of the Kerala high court fixing Rs 5 lakhs as fees for 85 per cent of the seats in private medical colleges.
The Bench also directed that Rs 6 lakh could be furnished through a bank guarantee.
