Madras HC directs 4 private medical colleges, CENTAC to pay INR 15 lakh each to 16 doctors

These doctors were illegally denied postgraduate seats during the 2017-18 medical admissions scam. Read here for more details.

The Madras High Court has directed four private medical colleges in Puducherry and the Union Territory (UT)’s Centralised Admission Committee (CENTAC) to pay a compensation of INR 15 lakh each to 16 doctors for illegally denying the postgraduate seats during the 2017-18 medical admissions scam.

The court directed the four private colleges, Arupadai Veedu Medical College, Vinayaka Mission Medical College, Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute, Sri Manakula Vinayakar Medical College and Hospital, Venkateswara Medical College and Hospital to pay INR 10 lakh to each of the 16 students and the CENTAC to pay INR 5 lakh to each of such students since, “the CENTAC and the Health Department of Government of Puducherry were in active connivance with the Colleges and have helped them to great extent to implement their scheme to make illegal admissions,” as reported by Bar and Bench.

Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) investigated the matter and claimed that government officials, private colleges and CENTAC members had abused their official position and cheated bonafide students by denying admission to CENTAC-sponsored students and instead admitting others after collecting exorbitant fees.

The bench of Justices R Subramanian and R Kalaimathi also upheld the order passed by Justice N Anand Venkatesh in October 2020, holding the admission of 64 PG medical students in the said four colleges during the academic year of 2017-18 was illegal.

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