India, Feb. 26 -- The Bombay high court has come to the rescue of a medical aspirant suffering from multiple disabilities who was denied admission under the persons with disabilities (PwD) quota in Jalna's Government Medical College.

The division bench of justices AS Chandurkar and MM Sathaye directed the college to create a supernumerary post for the 18-year-old Suyash Patil, a resident of Sangli district, and admit in the 2024-25 MBBS batch.

Patil had appeared for NEET-UG 2024 as a PwD candidate but was held ineligible to pursue MBBS as per a February 2019 notification issued by the National Medical Commission (NMC) as his hearing impairment exceeded 40%. He approached the high court after his representation to the NMC to consider him...