File counter affidavit in plea over local candidate status in MDS admissions: HC to government

The Telangana High Court directed the State government to file a counter affidavit in a writ petition filed by a BDS degree holder questioning the decision of Kaloji Narayana Rao University of Health Sciences, treating him as non-local candidate.

The 27-year-old petitioner, Voni Sahith, belonging to a scheduled tribe and hailing from Kashibugga of Warangal district, said in his plea that health university authorities treated him as a non-local candidate for admission to the MDS course for 2026-27 academic year. The Advocate General A. Sudarshan Reddy informed the HC that a co-ordinate bench of the HC in a batch of writ petitions held that ‘only those who had completed MBBS/BAMS/BHMS from ‘local area’ as defined in the Presidential Order 1974 were entitled for admissions into PG medical courses for academic year 2025-25.