The Gujarat High Court restored the eligibility of an MBBS graduate whose application for NEET‑PG 2025 admissions had been cancelled because of a minor mistake in calculating his MBBS aggregate percentage. The candidate had inadvertently entered an incorrect percentage in the application form; the aggregate percentage was wrongly stated as 58.28 instead of the correct 57.33. The Court found that this error was unintentional, with no evidence of any attempt at misrepresentation or suppression of information. The judges noted that since the admission process had not yet commenced and the petitioner approached the Court at the earliest opportunity, the error deserved sympathetic consideration. The High Court directed the relevant authorities — Admission Committee for Professional Post‑graduate Medical Courses (ACPMC) and National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences (NBEMS) — to allow the petitioner to correct the aggregate percentage in his application form, thereby restoring his candidature so that he could participate in the NEET-PG admission process.
In its reasoning, the Court emphasized that a trivial mathematical mistake should not derail a candidate’s career, especially when there is no evidence of fraudulent intent. It rejected suggestions by the authorities that the application could simply be disqualified for the mismatch, pointing out that penalising the candidate for an inadvertent calculation error would be disproportionate. The Court quashed and set aside the order cancelling the student’s candidature, allowing him to re-submit the corrected data.
In a related case, the Court also permitted another MBBS graduate whose NEET-PG application had been rejected on account of a similar error — entering 66.23% instead of the correct 66.32% — to rectify the mistake and retain eligibility. In that matter, the Court allowed correction of the application form but imposed a monetary penalty of ₹ 25,000 before allowing the candidate to participate in the admission process again.
Overall, these rulings reflect the Gujarat High Court’s readiness to view minor, non-fraudulent clerical errors with a degree of compassion and permit correction rather than allow harsh disqualifications that could derail a deserving candidate’s medical career.
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