However, it is made clear that the high court, while entertaining the writ petition, shall not pass any interim order pertaining to the academic year 2017-18." In a bid to step around the SC order restraining passing of any "interim" order, the Lucknow bench passed a final order permitting the college to admit students to the MBBS course. Medical Council of India (MCI) had appealed against the September 1 judgment of the Lucknow bench before the SC. MCI counsel Vikas Singh and additional solicitor general Maninder Singh had brought into focus the apparent "overreach" by HC as SC had barred admissions for 2017-18.A bench of CJI Misra and Justices Amitava Roy and A M Khanwilkar on September 6 entertained the MCI's appeal, stayed the HC order, and sent out aloud signal by recording, "If the institution has admitted students, they are debarred from continuing the course. "The bench did not stop there and decided to scrutinise the purported reasons for the Lucknow bench to pass such an outrageous order attempting to bypass the SC decision.

Source: Times of India November 10, 2017 01:41 UTC