New Delhi. The Supreme Court has sought response from the Center and others on a petition filed by a girl. The girl was denied admission to the medical course because of her stammer. Justice D.Y. A bench of Justices DY Chandrachud and Justice Hima Kohli issued notices to the Government of India, the National Medical Commission and others asking them to respond within three weeks.
The top court was hearing a plea of the girl who has challenged the amended rules of the Medical Council of India on Graduate Medical Education, 1997. Issuing the notice, the bench said that as a result of the rules, the petitioner was not admitted to the course on the ground that the impediment to articulate speech (stammer) is more than 40 per cent though the petitioner is suffering from standard disability under the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016. Is.
The petition has challenged the Graduate Amended Medical Education Regulations, 1997, due to which the petitioner was not allowed to appear in the examination.
