No relief to minority institutions for admission

Mumbai: The Bombay high court has levied costs of Rs 2 lakh on minority management institutions for seeking relief to admit students from the minority community to which the institution belongs for post graduate courses without taking part in the central admission process (CAP) which has been started to ensure transparency and curb corrupt practices.

The court held that as the minority institutions were seeking exemption from participating in the CAP rounds by approaching the court, it would set a wrong precedent and hence rejected the application and applied costs that was to be paid to the Tata Memorial Hospital for misusing the judicial process.

A division bench of justices B.R. Gavai and Bharati Dangre was hearing a notice of motion in a writ petition filed by Forum of Minority Management Institutions seeking directions to the state to allow the institutions to admit students belonging to the same minority community as the institution.

The relief was sought as the admission rules stipulated in Maharashtra Unaided Private Professional Educational Institutions (Regulation of Admissions to the Full Time Technical Courses) Rules, 2016 for post-graduate, under-graduate and diploma courses were ultra vires of Maharashtra Unaided Private Professional Educational Institutions Act, 2015.

The plea sought directions to be allowed to conduct admissions on their own and not be bound to be part of the CAP till the petition was decided.

After hearing the submissions, the court said that as the earlier order of the HC bench had refused to allow such reliefs and the apex court had concurred, the present plea was abuse of process of law.