NEET 2021: Madras HC to hear all petitions regarding NEET exam on July 13
The court had ordered that the Centre's counter-affidavit should be filed by July 8 and served on counsel of the DK, the DMK, the MDMK, the CPI, and others who wanted to implead in the case.
Additional Solicitor General R. Sankaranarayanan informed the bench of Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy that the Centre will file its counter-affidavit by the end of the day or on Tuesday morning. Madras High Court has earlier issued a notice to the Tamil Nadu Government over its decision to form a committee to study the impact of NEET based admission process. The notice was issued following the plea moved by State’s BJP general secretary Karu Nagarajan. The plea challenges the nine-member committee formed by the TN Government, calling it unconstitutional, illegal, unfair and without legal justification.
The state government had constituted the committee in June. Sankaranarayanan said that he would also serve the copies of the counter-affidavit to the writ petitioner as well as numerous political parties, organisations, and individuals who wanted to be impleaded in the case.
The court had ordered that the Centre's counter-affidavit should be filed by July 8 and served on counsel of the DK, the DMK, the MDMK, the CPI, and others who wanted to implead in the case.
Advocate General R. Shanmugasundaram, representing the state government, said that he was ready to argue the case and that he had already filed a counter-affidavit on its behalf.
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Senior lawyer P. Wilson, who was representing a student who had sought to be impleaded in the case, said: "There is nothing new in the constitution of a committee and Justice P. Kalaiyarasan committee's recommendation had led to 7.5 per cent reservation for medical admission to government school students."
Advocate V. Raghavachari, appearing for petitioner Nagarajan, countered Wilson's argument, saying: "There is nothing new and all petitions regarding NEET were dismissed by the Supreme Court and there is resistance to NEET only in Tamil Nadu and this has to end. It's a political game and it must end."
As both the lawyers sparred against each other, Chief Justice Banerjee intervened, saying that both would be given ample time to argue their respective view points.
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