- (1.) By this petition, a direction is sought on the Coordinator, Private College Pre-Medical Entrance Test (in short "PCPMT"), 2015 to hold fresh counselling for admission in MBBS/BDS courses and petitioners be called against the vacant seats. It is further prayed that if seats remained vacant out of All India quota then also petitioners may be given admission against those seats. In the alternatively, the process of admission adopted by PCPMT, 2015 including examination, counselling and the admission in the private medical colleges may be cancelled. It is looking to the forgery committed therein and to appoint a high level committee to investigate it.
(2.) Learned counsel submits that to fill the seats in MBBS/BDS courses, PCMPT was conducted by the Federation of Private Medical and Dental Colleges of Rajasthan (in short "Federation") The petitioners appeared in the entrance test along with others. As per the Instruction Booklet, the general caste candidate was required to secure minimum 50th of percentile to qualify in the entrance test and those who belong to SC, ST, OBC and SBC, minimum 40th percentile. After the entrance test, result was declared but the petitioners were shocked to notice that for admission in MBBS/BDS courses, criteria was changed. The Federation evolved different mechanism where a student was required to possess minimum 50% or 40% marks instead of percentile.
(3.) It is also stated that entrance test was conducted without information about negative marking. The petitioners attempted the questions without knowing that for incorrect answer, marks would be deducted in view of adoption of negative marking system. As an outcome of the procedure adopted by the Federation, the petitioners could not obtain qualifying marks even though their correct answers alone are taken into consideration. It comes to be more than 50% in the three relevant subjects, thus negative marking system may be removed. It is moreso when other agencies conducted similar common entrance test, system of negative marking was not adopted and thereby the result remained favourable on the basis of correct answers attempted by those candidates.;