Karachi, Oct 29(ANI): The Sindh High Court has provisionally allowed a Hindu student to appear in the forthcoming placement test for MBBS admission to the Dow University of Health Sciences.
Sagar Ladhani, who completed his O and A levels, assailed the condition of studying Islamiat at the O level to get an equivalence certificate from the local education board to appear in the forthcoming MBBS entrance test, the Dawn reports.
A division bench of the SHC put off the hearing of his petition to November 15, when the rights of the petitioner would be determined.
The petitioner stated that the subjects of religious studies, prescribed in the O level syllabus, were Islamic Religious Culture and Islamiat for Muslim students and Religious Studies, and Bible for Christian students.
However, there was no subject in the O level curriculum for the students belonging to other religious minorities, including Hindus, he pointed out.
He submitted that when he approached the Board of Intermediate Education to obtain an equivalence certificate of A level, he was told that it could be granted to him only if he had passed Religious Studies at O level or Ethics at the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) exams.
One option for him was to wait till the Ethics exam in May 2012.
"[But then] I would waste one precious year of my career. In this way there would be unfair competition since other O' Level students would have passed eight subjects and I would have to pass nine subjects," The Express Tribune quoted Sagar, as saying.
Sagar's father, Misri Ladhani, said the court's decision came as an interim relief. "I believe that justice will be done in my son's case as I'm very optimistic about our judicial system," he added. (ANI)
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