Karnataka High Court says no change of category permitted in NEET-UG/PG after results
Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court has held that candidates appearing for NEET-UG/PG examinations cannot seek a change in their category after the results have been declared.
The order was issued after a petition filed by C. Anusha, who had appeared in NEET-PG 2025. The last date for submission of the application form was March 7, 2025. A three-day correction window between March 9 and 11, 2025 was provided by the National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences (NBEMS).
The notice was issued after the declaration of results on August 19, 2025 when Anusha filed a writ petition on September 8, 2025, according to a report published by Deccan Herald. She had sought to change her category from General Merit (GM) to Other Backward Class (OBC) on the ground that she belongs to the Nekar (weaver) community.
In support of her plea, Anusha relied on earlier judgments of the High Court. Deputy Solicitor General Shanthi Bhushan, who appeared for both the NBEMS and the Medical Counselling Committee, opposed the petition. He argued that the petitioner had the opportunity to make corrections during the designated window but failed to do so, and therefore, her request after the results could not be entertained.
A division bench comprising Justice D.K. Singh and Justice Venkatesh Naik T observed that the judgments cited by the petitioner were distinguishable. In the P. Lakshmi Gowda case, the court had explicitly clarified that the decision should not be treated as a precedent. In the Bhanusri case, the request for change of category had been made before the results were declared.
The bench concluded that once a candidate submits the NEET application under a specific category and fails to utilize the correction window, there is no entitlement to alter the category after results are announced.
“Both the cases relied on by the petitioner’s counsel are distinguishable based on the facts of the present case. We, therefore, find no substance in this writ petition,” the bench ruled, while dismissing Anusha’s plea.
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Five railway staffers injured as van headed to Rajdhani Express fire site overturns in MP
Ratlam (MP) (PTI): Five railway staffers were injured, one of them critically, when their van carrying repair equipment to the site of a Rajdhani Express fire overturned in Madhya Pradesh's Ratlam district on Sunday, officials said.
The blaze erupted in an AC coach of the Delhi-bound Thiruvananthapuram-Hazrat Nizamuddin Rajdhani Express between Vikramgarh Alot and Lunirichha stations under the Kota division of the railways in Ratlam at 5.15 am.
It disrupted the movement of several trains on the Mumbai-Delhi route, as per the officials.
A van carrying necessary equipment to Alot overturned on the way when a cow suddenly strayed into the middle of the road, they said.
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Five railwaymen were injured, one of them critically, the officials said.
The incident took place when the van carrying essential equipment for overhead electric line repair, among other things, was on its way to Alot from Shyamnagar in Ratlam, West Central Railway's chief public relations officer Harshit Shrivastava told PTI.
The injured persons were rushed to the hospital and were subsequently referred to Kota in Rajasthan, officials said.
No casualties were reported in the train fire.
