With Navodaya Medical College, Raichur, obtaining a stay order from the High Court on the Government notification providing reservation of medical seats to students from the Hyderabad-Karnataka region under Article 371(J) of the Constitution, the State Government has decided to file a special leave petition (SLP) in the Supreme Court to seek justice for students of the region.
In the case related to reservation of seats to medical students under Article 371(J) of the Constitution for H-K region, the High Court ruled in favour of the Navodaya Medical College.
In a reply to Shivaraj Patil of the BJP during Zero Hour, Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs J.C. Madhuswamy and Health Minister K. Sudhakar told the Legislative Assembly that the Government would file the petition in the Supreme Court and take steps to set right in the Act concerned for providing quota for students seeking medical seats in the college.
