Karnataka High Court issued a notice on a petition filed by three postgraduate medical students who prayed that their admissions to the course be considered effective from the day they were allotted seats.

Petitioners Dr. Gouli Chandrashekar, Dr. CJ Rajashekar and Dr. VL Ramesh were admitted to the course by the Devaraj Medical College at Kolar on April 23, 2003 after a delay of about two months after the allotments of seats.

They stated that they had been allotted the seats on February 28, 2003 and sought to consider their study period from this date.

The petition challenged the order of Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS), which had considered their annual admissions from the date of admission and scheduled their exams in October-November 2006 and sought a direction to take their exams in March-April 2006.

Justice S Abdul Nazeer issued notices to the medical education director, RGUHS, Medical Council of India and their college. In another batch of petitions by the St. John's Medical College and students who were provided with seats, the State High Court reserved the judgement in the admission case.

The college management filed the petitions in 2003 challenging the PG Admissions Rules 2003 and Medical Council of India rule stipulating 50:50 ratio for admission and sought permission to fill all the seats on its own and on the plea that it was a minority institution. Later by virtue of an interim order from the Court, it filled all the 54 seats on its own and 27 candidates under the 50 per cent quota of the government also stood admitted for the years 2004-05 and 2005-06. Thus the total intake of the college became 150 per cent of the permitted intake and the two batches of students went to Court to safeguard their admissions.

Division bench comprising Justice B Padmaraj and Justice V Jagannathan reserved the judgements to a later date.