4 min readVadodaraFeb 3, 2026 06:40 PM IST HOLDING THAT a lacuna such as failing to upload a copy of the passbook of a sponsor “ought not to cost the career of a meritorious student”, the Gujarat High Court (HC) on Monday directed the Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) of the Directorate of General of Health Sciences to consider the application of the petitioning medical student for inclusion in the merit list of PG NEET. In an oral order dictated just 20 minutes before the closing time of admission applications to the medical PG course, Justice Nirzar Desai of the Gujarat HC on Monday emphasised on “keeping this order as short as possible… the window for the admission is to be closed by 12 pm, after about 20 minutes…” The student, Swara Bhatt, moved the court seeking directions to the MCC of the Directorate General of Health Sciences to include her name in the NRI list of Eligible Candidates for the PG Round 3 of 2025-26 and permit her to “take part in the counselling process”, …