Hyderabad: In utter disregard to the Telangana High Court, the Kaloji Narayana Rao University of Health Sciences (KNRUHS) ignored to comply with Chief Justice Hima Kohli’s directive to file a counter affidavit in a case pertaining to an MBBS admission row.
The Chief Justice, while hearing a petition filed by two students in Writ Petition (WP) 437/2021, asked the KNRUHS to file a counter by February 11 and posted the case for Friday for final hearing. The university authorities, however, chose not to file any counter.
When contacted to question the reasons for not complying with the directions of the High Court, Vice-Chancellor Dr B. Karunakar Reddy and Registrar Dr D. Praveen Kumar chose not to respond.
Two medical students, G. Apoorva and A. Harshita, had filed a case questioning the counselling procedure of the varsity, which allowed less meritorious students, majority of whom are from Andhra Pradesh, in the otherwise meritorious “unreserved open category”. This…