Madras High Court dismisses case against Justice A.K. Rajan NEET committee

The Madras High Court on Tuesday dismissed a public curiosity litigation petition filed by BJP State secretary K. Nagarajan with a plea to quash an order issued by the Tamil Nadu authorities on June 10, constituting a committee headed by Justice A.K. Rajan to review the affect of the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) on medical aspirants.

Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy rejected the plea on the bottom that the mere structure of a committee couldn’t be thought of an act of defiance to any order handed by the Supreme Court in favour of NEET. They stated the committee doesn’t pose even the remotest problem to the constitutional proper of the Centre to repair requirements for greater schooling.

The judges noticed that the intention of the committee was to provoke a dialogue on the premise of the findings of a research and that no dialogue may start with a differing perspective. They dismissed the case instantly after listening to the petitioner’s counsel and Additional Solicitor General R. Sankaranarayanan representing the Centre, which opposed the committee.

The court docket didn’t name upon even Advocate General R. Shunmugasundaram to make his submissions on behalf of the State authorities since they had been satisfied proper from the graduation of arguments that the PIL petitioner had not made out any case against the structure of the committee.

The court docket additionally didn’t hear a bunch of advocates representing the ruling DMK in addition to the Dravidar Kazhagam, MDMK and a bunch of different political events, people and organisations who needed to implead themselves in assist of the committee.

The court docket held that it was effectively throughout the powers of an elected authorities to represent a committee.