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Telangana High Court Grants Interim Local Status to 32 KNRUHS Medical Aspirants

The order lets the students register under the Competent Authority Quota before the July 25 deadline pending the court’s final verdict on the four-year domicile requirement.

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Overview

  • The order permits the 32 petitioners to register as local candidates for counselling by the July 25 deadline under the Competent Authority Quota.
  • Chief Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh and Justice P Sam Koshy issued the interim relief in response to petitions against the KNRUHS’s July 15 prospectus.
  • The petitioners contend that the July 2024 amendment to Rule 3(a) enforces an arbitrary four-year Telangana study or residence condition that breaches Articles 14, 19 and 21 of the Constitution.
  • Division benches in 2023 and 2024 had read down Rule 3(a) to include permanent residents and directed the state to frame domicile guidelines, which remain unissued.
  • The Telangana government previously obtained a Supreme Court stay on those rulings only after agreeing to consider the petitioners as local candidates during counselling.