India, Jan. 7 -- A full-blown controversy over the admission of 46 Muslim students out of a total of 50 in the maiden batch for the MBBS course at Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Institute of Medical Excellence in Jammu and Kashmir's Reasi has now led to the withdrawal of the Letter of Permission (LoP) granted to the college to run the course.

On Tuesday, the Medical Assessment and Rating Board (MARB) of the National Medical Commission (NMC) withdrew permission for the medical college, citing reasons such as poor infrastructure, lack of adequate clinical material, shortage of qualified full-time teaching staff and an insufficient number of resident doctors, as mentioned in an earlier HT report.

"Continuation of the institution under such circums...