<p>A group of doctors have approached the Supreme Court challenging the validity of the Karnataka government rules mandating 10 years of academic study in the state for a candidate to qualify for admission to 50 % institutional seats in Post Graduate courses in private medical colleges.</p>.<p>On Wednesday, a bench of Justices Arun Mishra, Mohan M Shantanagoudar and Navin Sinha asked the Karnataka government to file its response to the petition filed by K Sourabh and others.</p>.<p>The court put the petition for consideration on April 8.</p>.<p>"In the meantime, reply affidavit, if any, may be filed," the bench told the Karnataka government, represented by senior advocate Basava Prabhu Patil.</p>.<p>The petitioners, represented by senior advocate Nidhesh Gupta, contended the eligibility criteria published on March 16 by the Karnataka Examination Authority in a way imposed domicile condition.</p>.<p>This was contrary to the apex court's orders, which had set aside identical conditions in 2014-15 and 2018-19 for being violative of the right to equality.</p>.<p>The petitioners have qualified the NEET-PG test, after completing their MBBS and BDS courses from Karnataka's medical colleges. They said they got admission to undergraduate courses on the basis of 15% all India seats.</p>.<p>"While there is no embargo across all seats as was the case in the academic year 2018-19, the state of Karnataka in the garb of institutional preferences, has stipulated that for 50% of institutional seats in private medical colleges, the domicile requirement is mandatory," their petition stated.</p>.<p>They sought a direction to quash the condition stating that the candidate must have mandatorily studied for 10 academic years from class I and 12 for being eligible for admission to 50% institutional seats in private medical colleges in Karnataka.</p>
<p>A group of doctors have approached the Supreme Court challenging the validity of the Karnataka government rules mandating 10 years of academic study in the state for a candidate to qualify for admission to 50 % institutional seats in Post Graduate courses in private medical colleges.</p>.<p>On Wednesday, a bench of Justices Arun Mishra, Mohan M Shantanagoudar and Navin Sinha asked the Karnataka government to file its response to the petition filed by K Sourabh and others.</p>.<p>The court put the petition for consideration on April 8.</p>.<p>"In the meantime, reply affidavit, if any, may be filed," the bench told the Karnataka government, represented by senior advocate Basava Prabhu Patil.</p>.<p>The petitioners, represented by senior advocate Nidhesh Gupta, contended the eligibility criteria published on March 16 by the Karnataka Examination Authority in a way imposed domicile condition.</p>.<p>This was contrary to the apex court's orders, which had set aside identical conditions in 2014-15 and 2018-19 for being violative of the right to equality.</p>.<p>The petitioners have qualified the NEET-PG test, after completing their MBBS and BDS courses from Karnataka's medical colleges. They said they got admission to undergraduate courses on the basis of 15% all India seats.</p>.<p>"While there is no embargo across all seats as was the case in the academic year 2018-19, the state of Karnataka in the garb of institutional preferences, has stipulated that for 50% of institutional seats in private medical colleges, the domicile requirement is mandatory," their petition stated.</p>.<p>They sought a direction to quash the condition stating that the candidate must have mandatorily studied for 10 academic years from class I and 12 for being eligible for admission to 50% institutional seats in private medical colleges in Karnataka.</p>
