HC helps MBBS student save academic year

Thanks to the timely intervention of the Bombay High Court, Kapildev Patil, who, because of an inadvertent mistake by his college, was declared ‘failed’ despite securing an aggregate 67 per cent marks in the final examination of the first year MBBS course, will not lose a year.

Thanks to the timely intervention of the Bombay High Court, Kapildev Patil, who, because of an inadvertent mistake by his college, was declared ‘failed’ despite securing an aggregate 67 per cent marks in the final examination of the first year MBBS course, will not lose a year.

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“The student has admittedly appeared for the internal examination and passed it,” observed the division bench of chief justice Mohit Shah and justice D Y Chandrachud, adding, “There is no reason or justification why the petitioner (Patil) should lose an academic year on account of a mistake by the college.”

Patil had been declared ‘failed’ by Maharashtra University of Healthy Sciences (MUHS) because his college, BYL Nair Hospital, while forwarding the assessment sheet to MUHS, had marked him ‘absent’ in the internal examinations – both in the theory as well as practical exam – in Bio-Chemistry.

On August 6, 2010, the college wrote to the Controller of Examinations of MUHS, requesting that the mistake be corrected. MUHS, however, declined to amend Patil’s results stating that the cut-off date for forwarding internal assessment sheets had already passed.

Patil then approached the high court, stating that he had indeed appeared for the internal examination and the college had made a mistake by conveying the wrong information to the university.

Acting on his plea, the court, on September 15, directed the college to forward Patil’s corrected assessment sheet, and MUHS to issue the amended results to Patil within two weeks.