SC adjourns hearing on Ukraine returned medicos' plea; Next hearing on Nov 1

Supreme Court of India has fixed the next hearing on Ukraine's returned medical students' plea to continue their medical education in India on November 1, 2022.

While many hopeless Ukraine returned medical students are returning back to the war-torn country Ukraine, a case is going on in the Supreme Court where these students have filed a plea to continue their remaining medical course in India. The top court adjourned the case on Tuesday and fixed the next hearing date as November 1, 2022.

Senior Advocate Rajiv Dutta appearing for the students submitted before a bench led by Justice Hemant Gupta that a meeting had to be convened to take a call on the issue.

“We’re waiting for something positive may come. They have been informing but nothing is coming through. This is the situation where we need their help,” he said, as reported by Indian Express.

Earlier, the top court had advised the Centre to make a portal for Ukraine-returned medical students to maintain transparency.

“You can develop a portal, and give them the options so that the students can be transferred. We acknowledge that India can’t accommodate 20,000 students and they will have to study outside India. It should be transparently available so that they can take up the course," a bench of Justices Hemant Gupta and Sudhanshu Dhulia noted.

Amid the ongoing case, many students have started returning back to Ukraine while the war is still going on between Russia and Ukraine as many Ukraine universities have started offline exams.

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