The High Court of Karnataka on Thursday imposed a cost of ₹1 lakh on the Karnataka Examination Authority (KEA) for illegally cancelling a post-graduate medical seat allotted under in-service category to a doctor working in Jayadeva Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences and Research, Bengaluru.
A division bench comprising Chief Justice P.S. Dinesh Kumar and Justice T.G. Shivashankare Gowda passed the order while allowing a petition filed by 32-year-old Dr. Rajesh Kumar D., an assistant surgeon in Jayadeva institute.
The petitioner, after qualifying in NEET-PG, 2021, was on February 2, 2022, allotted a seat in MD Respiratory Medicine course in Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Respiratory and Chest Diseases, Bengaluru, under Scheduled Caste quota reserved for in-service doctors working in autonomous medical institutions in the post-graduate medical courses.