The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to examine a medical aspirant’s plea to let him pursue an MBBS course despite suffering from the disability of “low vision” in which the eyesight cannot be corrected or improved.
The issue arose before a bench of Justice UU Lalit and Justice Deepak Gupta, which asked whether a person with a visual disability could become a doctor to treat patients. The student, in his petition, has claimed he has scored rank 419 under the ‘physically handicapped’ category and has a fair chance of getting a seat under the special category. Senior advocates Sanjay Hegde and Govind Jee appeared for the student.
The bench issued notices to the Centre and the Gujarat government on the plea of the student and asked for a direction for issuance of disability certificate as per law. The court also asked the committee of BJ Medical College, Ahmedabad, to examine the student within three days and posted the matter for further hearing on July 3.

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