Judgment reserved in pleas against PUMHS

Division bench hears arguments for second day.

KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Thursday reserved its judgment in several identical constitutional petitions filed by students seeking admission to Peoples University of Medical and Health Sciences (PUMHS).

The division bench, comprising Justice Munib Akhtar and Justice Salman Hamid earlier heard arguments from both the sides for two days, Wednesday and Thursday.

The petitioners maintained that they applied for admission to PUMHS, established in Benazirabad District (formerly Nawabshah) and deposited fee, and also appeared in an entrance test. On October 21 last year, a corrigendum was issued jointly by PUMHS and Chandka University of Medical and Health Sciences (respondents)issuing a joint list of successful candidates eligible to admission while the PUMHS had already issued a provisional list of eligible candidates.

They maintained that issuance of corrigendum jointly by the two respondent universities is beyond their jurisdiction and authority and a later amendment in their prospectus is also illegal.

The court was asked to declare that act of combining the list of candidates fit for admission as illegal and to declare that petitioners are entitled to be admitted in first year MBBS according to the provisional list.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 6^th, 2012.