The Supreme Court is learnt to have cautioned High Courts across the country to be judicious in dealing with litigation pertaining to admissions to medical and other professional courses and not to grant stay liberally in such litigations and stall the admissions process.

This advisory has reportedly come from the SC in the wake of proposed change in the pattern of entrance examination for medical courses and the flurry of petitions flooding High Courts across the country challenging the new admission process for technical and medical courses. The Centre has proposed a National Eligibility-cumEntrance Test for admission to the MBBS course.

Gujarat, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh have opposed NEET. State governments too may approach the courts against the proposed medical entrance examination. In an earlier judgement, the SC fixed September 30 every year as the final deadline for completing the admissions process for MBBS courses.

In a related development, a division bench comprising acting Chief Justice Ghulam Mohammad and Justice Nooty Ramamohana Rao categorically said they cannot stay the counselling for super-specialty courses in Ayurveda medicine scheduled to be held on Sunday . The petitioner urged the court to direct the respondents to fill up the reserved quota of seats in the MD (Ayurveda) course for the 2011-12 as per Regulation 3 of the prospectus issued by NTR University .

The petitioner contended that the allocation of all the reserved seats in favour of Backward Class candidates only under Regulation 4.5 of the prospectus was illegal and contrary to Article 15 (4) of the Constitution. Expressing its disinclination to grant stay on the counselling, the bench directed the university and the director of medical education to file their counters within two weeks on the plea.