Overview
- Each college must deposit Rs 10 crore with the Rajasthan State Legal Services Authority within eight weeks, with the corpus kept in fixed deposits and the interest directed to One Stop Centres, Nari Niketans, old age homes, and child‑care institutions under a five‑judge committee that includes at least one woman.
- The court also ordered the Rajasthan government to deposit Rs 10 lakh, faulting its unauthorised 10% plus 5% reduction in the NEET qualifying percentile for 2016–17 BDS admissions.
- Justices J. K. Maheshwari and Vijay Bishnoi held that the colleges admitted students beyond even those relaxations, calling it a willful breach of the 2007 BDS Regulations warranting strict punitive action.
- Invoking Article 142, the court regularised the degrees of students who completed the course, conditional on affidavits committing to provide free services to the state during disasters, disease outbreaks, or other emergencies.
- The court reaffirmed that the five‑year BDS must be completed within nine years and warned that students exceeding this limit will be expelled.