New Delhi, Feb. 5 -- The Delhi High Court has struck down the blanket prohibition on migration of MBBS students under the Graduate Medical Education Regulations, 2023, holding that such a complete ban is manifestly arbitrary and violative of constitutional protections.

The Court directed the authorities to reconsider the transfer request of a visually impaired medical student seeking to migrate from a Rajasthan medical college to Delhi on medical and disability-related grounds.

A Division Bench comprising the Chief Justice and Justice Tejas Karia ruled that Regulation 18 of the Graduate Medical Education Regulations, 2023, which imposed a total ban on migration of undergraduate medical students, cannot be sustained in law.

The Court he...