The High Court of Karnataka has imposed a cost of ₹1 lakh each on two private dental college for wasting the time of the court by leading a few students to the court in a bid to fill up the vacant seats in the undergraduate dental course for the academic year 2021-22.
A Division Bench comprising Justice B. Veerappa and Justice K.S. Hemalekha passed the order while dismissing the petitions filed by Sri Venkateshwara Dental College and Hospital, Bengaluru and KVG Dental College and Hospital, Sullia in Dakshina Kannada district.
Both the colleges, managed by a single management, had filed the petitions along with six students, showing the addresses of the students as “care of” the colleges even though the students were not admitted to the colleges to the BDS course. The colleges had sought a direction to the Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA) to open the portal to enable petitioner-students to register for the mop-up round of admission more than a month after the admission through the mop-up round was closed.
