Overview

• Petitioners told Chief Justice B.R. Gavai and Justice K. Vinod Chandran that Telangana is extending local status only to children of state employees under the court-approved exception.
• The bench asked petitioners to bring the state's counsel before the court, with the matter expected to be taken up later this week, likely on September 19.
• On September 1, the Supreme Court upheld Telangana’s 2017 medical and dental admission rules, including the four-year continuous study requirement for local-candidate eligibility within the 85% state quota.
• The court had accepted a narrow proviso allowing eligibility for children of specified transferable employees who studied outside Telangana, subject to certification by a competent authority.
• During the mention, the Chief Justice queried why contempt was not sought, and counsel said a clarification was needed because MBBS and BDS counselling had already begun.