The Punjab and Haryana High Court have ruled that the Pre Medical Entrance Test (PMET)-2015 won't be reconducted. The exam was held by the Baba Farid University of Health Sciences (BFUHS), Faridkot.

The court, however, asked the varsity to revise the merit list of the May 17 examination and directed it to allow students to carry the exam papers outside the hall in the future.

While tur ning down the demand of petitioners for a retest, the high court bench of justice RK Jain stated that court was fully satisfied with the exhaustive averments, supported by documentary evidence, made in the reply furnished by the university (on validity of exam).

"The examination cannot be re-conducted on the mere ipsi dixit (unproven statement) of the petitioners... otherwise, the court would tread on a dangerous path in case the examination of such a magnitude and importance is ordered to be cancelled only on the basis of mere allegations," justice Jain said in his judgment. The court also ruled out demand of sending the question paper to third-party experts, stating there was no "reasonable cause" to seek another expert opinion "I am also not relying upon the expert report of the petitioners as against the exhaustive report(s) furnished by university experts whose credentials have been established on record," the High Court said. The court also took note of the submissions by university counsel senior advocate Anupam Gupta, who had argued that main objective of petitioners was to seek re-examination because they had not fared well in the examination and had supplied PMET ranking of the petitioners.

"The NCERT books are not the only source of reliance/ knowledge for the students who are taking up such a competitive exam for the purpose of admission to an MBBS course," the high court bench said while negating the argument of petitioners that NCERT books were "standard books" for the exam.

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