Medical Council of India Act, 1956

The Apollo Institute of Medical Sciences & Research applied to the Ministry of Health for permission to start a new medical college for the 2016-17 session. The Ministry, relying on a negative recommendation of the Medical Council of India (MCI), initially denied the permission, but an Oversight Committee later granted…

Saraswati Medical College sought a Letter of Permission to start a new MBBS programme with 150 seats for the 2015‑16 academic year. The Medical Council of India (MCI) inspected the college, identified deficiencies, and after a second inspection raised further deficiencies, leading the Union of India to disapprove the a…

The petitioners, a group of doctors seeking admission to postgraduate and super‑speciality medical courses, challenged state government notifications that required them to execute compulsory service bonds and pay hefty penalties for default. The issues raised concerned the constitutional competence of the states to iss…

The V.N. Public Health & Educational Trust applied to establish a medical college for the 2016-17 academic year, submitting an Essentiality Certificate that was later found to be conditional and not in the format prescribed by the 1999 MCI Regulations. The Medical Council of India (MCI) recommended disapproval, and the…

The Poonaiyah Ramajayam Institute of Science and Technology Trust applied under Section 10A of the Medical Council of India Act, 1956 for establishing a new medical college for the 2015‑16 academic year, but the essentiality and affiliation certificates were submitted after the statutory cut‑off date, leading to reject…

The petitioners, Annaii Medical College, sought confirmation of a conditional Letter of Permission (LOP) for the 2016‑17 MBBS session and relief from a decision that barred them from admitting students for 2017‑18 and 2018‑19 and authorised the Medical Council of India (MCI) to encash a Rs 2 crore bank guarantee. The M…

The Supreme Court entertained suo motu contempt petitions arising from its own directions on medical college admissions in Chhattisgarh, finding that the Director of Medical Education, Dr. S.L. Adile, and four other officials wilfully flouted the Court's schedule and admitted two candidates, including the Director's da…

The Supreme Court examined the constitutional validity of Section 5(4) of the Kerala Medical Officers' Admission to Post‑Graduate Courses under Service Quota Act, 2008, which mandated that in‑service doctors be selected for postgraduate seats solely on the basis of seniority. The Court held that Regulation 9 of the Med…

Dr. D.D. Gupta, a lecturer with an MD in Pharmacology from Maharishi Dayanand University, was denied consideration for promotion to Assistant Professor by the Departmental Promotion Committee on the ground that his degree was not recognized by the Medical Council of India (MCI). He challenged the decision, and the High…

The Medical Council of India (MCI) appealed against a Karnataka High Court interim order that allowed JSS Medical College to admit 200 MBBS students for 2011‑12, despite the Board of Governors of the MCI having rejected the college’s application for increase of seats. The college had originally applied for an increase …

The Supreme Court examined the legality of the abrupt elimination of the 15% NRI quota in postgraduate medical and dental admissions in Rajasthan during the COVID‑19 pandemic. Two NRI candidates had obtained admission under a single High Court judge’s order directing that they be admitted as NRI students, which was lat…

Colonel Indra Veer Singh Gahlot, an officer of the Armed Forces Medical Services, was considered for promotion to Brigadier in 2011 but was not selected. He challenged the promotion decision, arguing that the 2004 promotion policy could not be amended before five years and that the 2006 amendment restricting Ph.D. mark…

The Medical Council of India (MCI) inspected Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS) after it sought to admit an additional 50 MBBS students for the 2015-16 academic year. The inspection uncovered serious deficiencies, and the MCI recommended that the Central Government deny the extra seats. The Central Government…

The petitioners, 44 doctors who cleared NEET‑PG 2018, challenged Clause 4.1 of the Karnataka Information Bulletin (PGET‑2018) which required candidates to be of Karnataka origin and to have ten years of domicile for admission to 50% government‑quota postgraduate medical and dental seats. The State argued that the domic…