NEET PG 2023 Postponement : Supreme Court Refuses To Postpone, Dismisses Petitions | Live Updates [Feb 27]

Justice Bhat: That is not what we said...

GS: 2 lakh odd has registered for the exam. Your lordships were concerned who could have just completed the internship. 

Justice Bhat: When will your internship end.

GS: For those I represent it is May, June, July. 

GS: I had to be content. I had no option. 

Justice Bhat: When I asked you wanted postponement, you said you did not want. Some of them you represent were content with the timeline as it was.

Justice Bhat: Can you make the request for postponement. If you have not then you were ready to take the exam. So nothing has changed for you. 

GS: In pg L of the SLP there is a table which shows the date of exam and date of counselling. In all there is just 2 months gap. This time it is almost 5 months gap. 

Justice Bhat: What you are saying is that they should not have postponed the internship? How many time have they postponed the date in the past?

GS: They did last year also. 

Sankaranarayanan : The previous practice in the past is that the gap between the internship deadline and the exam is never more than two months.

Senior Advocate Gopal Sankaranarayanan, appearing for the petitioners, submitted that out of the over 2 lakh candidates who have registered for NEET-PG, nearly 1.3 lakh students are those who completed their graduation in previous years and who could not make it through PG in the previous terms.