The Secretary of MCI (Medical Council of India) has filed an appeal in Andhra Pradesh High Court against the court's earlier orders granting provisional sanction of 50 MBBS additional seats each to the Osmania and Kakatiya medical colleges in the state.

Justice CV Nagarjuna Reddy had on July 13 directed the principal secretary (medical & health) to grant provisional sanction for 50 additional seats each to Osmania and Kakatiya medical colleges. The court also asked the principals of the two colleges to file separate undertakings before the MCI that they would remove all the defects pointed out by the MCI during its visit within one month from July 13. The principal secretary M&H was directed to file these undertakings within two days and, after filing such affidavits only, he is directed to grant the sanction of seats.

The secretary of MCI contended that the single judge of the AP High Court passed the interim order on July 13 granting final relief at the interim stage and that too without even giving an opportunity to the appellant to file a counter affidavit and place all relevant material. He made it clear that MCI cannot increase the number of seats for the academic session 2012-13 at this stage in accordance with the Supreme Court’s direction that any permission granted by the MCI to establish a new medical college/increase in existing seat capacity after July 15 of the academic session concerned shall be treated to be a permission only for the next session.