The Supreme Court’s chamber judge has removed the High Court stay on deducting 5 points from examinees taking medical and dental college admission tests for the second time, reports bdnews24.
Justice Hasan Foez Siddique stayed the High Court decision for three weeks after a state petition on Thursday and sent the case to the Appellate Division.
This means there are currently no obstacles to deducting the scores from the upcoming medical college admission tests on Oct 6 and the dental college admission tests on Nov 10, said Attorney General Mahbubey Alam.
The DGHS in an Aug 21 notice said it would deduct five points from those who will retake the tests and publish the result based on that score.
On Aug 27, Supreme Court lawyer Younus Ali Akhand filed a petition saying the decision would 'violate an individual's basic rights'.
On Sept 12, the High Court issued a stay order on the decision and issued a rule asking why it would not be declared illegal.
The chamber judge halted the stay order and set the leave to appeal hearing date for Oct 3.
“The idea of cutting marks from those taking the admission tests a second time was introduced in the BMDC rules to maintain fairness,” said Alam after the hearing.
“As the High Court decision is stayed there are no obstacles to the deduction of the marks from the upcoming medical admission test on Oct 6 and the dental admission test on Nov 10.”
According to the BMDC admission regulations, those students retaking their admission tests in order to change colleges would have 7.5 marks deducted.
There are no obstacles to implementing that rule either, said AG Alam.
