Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court has found fault with Kaloji Narayana Rao University of Health Sciences (KNRUHS) for denying admission for MBBS to a student on the ground that it was not satisfied with the subjects pursued by the student. This was done even after the subject was approved by the Board of Intermediate, the court noted.
A division bench of Justice M.S. Ramachandra Rao and Justice T. Amarnath Goud was dealing with a petition by Srikeerti Reddy Pingle, who completed Class XII at Conard High School under West Hartford Board of Education, Connecticut, USA. She applied for the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test(NEET) undergraduate exam under the foreign national category and secured a rank.
When she went for counseling for admission under the management quota Category C (NRI), the university refused admission on the ground there was no proof of the student having studied biological science in the qualifying examination. This, even though the petitioner…