Mumbai, July 03: In the wake of reports about private medical colleges collecting huge capitation fees, the Mumbai High Court today restrained private engineering and medical colleges in Maharashtra from going ahead with the admission process and stopped them from collecting money from students. Justice Ajit Shah and Justice Dhananjay Chandrachud adjourned to July 8 a bunch of petitions filed by engineering and medical colleges, which challenged the admission process of holding common entrance test and the fee structure.
The petitioners contended that the Common Entrance Test (CET) should be conducted by them and not the government and that the private colleges should have the right to decide the fee structure and select the candidates. The engineering colleges challenged the constitution of educational institutions regulatory authority and said they were following a supreme court order which gave them rights to select their own students and fix the fee structure. The engineering colleges have also challenged a state government resolution, which allowed 15 per cent management quota and permitted the rest of the admissions through a Common Entrance Test. Bureau Report