MUHS Exams 2021 to begin from June 10 in offline mode, Bombay HC refuses to grant stay

The exams should be put on hold until all students are vaccinated or it should be conducted online, petitioners' lawyer advocate Rahul Bhangde had submitted.

The Bombay High Court has refused to grant to stay to offline examinations of Maharashtra University of Health Sciences (MUHS) scheduled to begin from June 10. Justice Avinash Gharote was hearing a petition filed by Amol Deshmukh and Nitesh Tantarpale, seeking postponement of the exams for undergraduate as well as post-graduate courses of MUHS, including MBBS, MD and BHMS.

The exams should be put on hold until all students are vaccinated or it should be conducted online, petitioners' lawyer advocate Rahul Bhangde had submitted. He argued, that if the exams are conducted in the current situation then there is a risk of students as well as examination staff getting exposed to COVID-19 infection. 

MUHS lawyer Abhijit Deshpande said the petition had been filed very late and the entire preparation for the examinations has already been completed. Students have a choice to sit for the examination later, he pointed out.

All necessary safety measures including social distancing will be taken during the examinations, he added. Justice Gharote noted in the order that there are 40,661 candidates slated to take the examinations at 173 centres, and except for petitioner Tantarpale, nobody has opposed the exams.

Those who are unable to appear for whatever reasons may take the examinations later which will not be counted as an additional attempt, the court noted.

"All the preparations for conducting the examinations from June 10 are in place, which is a date five days hence. The examinations in the earlier two phases were conducted offline, in January-February 2021 and March-April 2021... it would not now be justifiable to stay the conduct of the examinations," the court said.

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