Writ petition seeks suspension of MBBS admission process

A writ petition was filed with the High Court today (Wednesday), seeking its order on the government to suspend MBBS admission process for academic session 2020-21, claiming its merit list "flawed".

Supreme Court lawyer Mohammad Humayun Kabir Pallab submitted the petition on behalf of 324 candidates, who didn't qualify as per the merit list, requesting the HC to direct the authorities concerned of the government to cancel the merit list and to publish a fresh list through reevaluating the admission test result.

In the petition, they said the authorities have not followed the provisions of the MBBS test rules for deducting 7.5 points from the total number scored by a candidate, who already got admitted as MBBS student but sat for the exam again, and the provisions for deducting 5 points from total number scored by a candidate who passed HSC last year in cases of many candidates.

The Directorate General of Medical Education (DGME)on April 4 published the results of MBBS admission test for academic session 2020-21.

A total of 48,975 students passed against 12,690 seats in 47 public and 70 private medical colleges across the country for the academic year 2020-21.

There are 4,350 seats in public medical colleges and 8,340 in private medical colleges.

On April 2, a total of 1,16,792 aspirants appeared in the admission test of the MBBS course for the academic session.