ISLAMABAD:
In a landmark resolution that brings reduction to hundreds of medical aspirants, the Islamabad Excessive Courtroom (IHC) declared on Saturday that the Medical and Dental Faculties Admission Take a look at (MDCAT) outcomes of November 2022 had been legitimate for 2 years as per the rules in place eventually yr.
The judgment issued by Justice Miangul Hasan Aurangzeb on a petition filed by one Laiba Rauf, implies that the scholars who handed the MDCAT in November 2022 can now search admission to medical schools in 2024.
Rauf had challenged the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council’s (PMDC) public discover of July 14, 2023, which said that MDCAT outcomes from 2022 wouldn’t be legitimate for admissions in 2023, regardless of the rules at the moment clearly stating a two-year validity interval.
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The courtroom discovered that the PMDC’s try and retract the two-year validity interval by a subsequent administrative resolution was unlawful and violated the rights of scholars, who had appeared for the examination underneath the earlier rules.
“This proper can’t be withdrawn from the petitioner by a subsequent administrative resolution,” the courtroom said. Justice Aurangzeb additional directed the PMDC to bear the bills incurred by Rauf in pursuing the case.