HC freezes selection of Nims registrars

hyderabad: justice r ramanujam of the andhra pradesh high court on monday directed the nizam's institute of medical sciences not to give effect to the decision of the ongoing selection of clinical registrars. the judge was dealing with a writ petition filed by dr m srinivas and three others complaining that the authorities were discriminating among the equally qualified candidates.the petitioners contended that while some candidates, who did not satisfy the prescribed qualifications, were called for the interviews, others, who were similarly situated, were excluded.the notification called for filling up posts in 22 faculties. petition against nri medical college in another case, justice r ramanujam of the high court has ordered notices in a writ petition challenging the notice issued by justice maruthi committee inviting applications from institutions seeking to start a medical college in guntur district. the nri academy of medical sciences filed the writ petition complaining that the notification was issued on january 13 requiring the submission of the applications by january 22. the time granted for filling up and submitting the applications in a week's time was challenged as being impractical and arbitrary. scr told to pay justice n v ramanna of the high court on monday ordered the south central railway (scr) to pay a contractor rs 1,000 for cancellation of tenders. the judge was dealing with a writ petition filed by s venkataramana, who responded to a tender notification issued in february 2000 for allotment of a milk bar at the renugunta railway station in favour of scheduled tribes candidates. when the authorities failed to finalise the tender notification, the petitioner filed the writ petition. however, the authorities filed a counter affidavit in december 2000 contending that a decision was taken by the scr to give the outlet on lease to the milk cooperative society. finding fault with the authorities for calling for a tender contrary to the decision of the authorities, the judge directed the payment of rs 1000 within three months. contempt notice in another case, justice t meena kumari of the andhra pradesh high court on monday ordered contempt notices to the counsel appearing for the ntr health university. the judge took notice of a letter addressed by the counsel to the university in a pending writ petition and found the same to be offensive. in a writ petition filed by t srinath, a student of the siddharta medical college, directions were sought to declare that the results detaining him in first year was illegal. the counsel had advised the university to conduct an inquiry into the petitioner's very admission to the course on the ground that he physically did not appear to be one who could have obtained admission under the sports quota as was in the case. the judge took serious objection to the said correspondence and found that it amounted to interference with the judicial process.