Chandigarh, Sept. 18 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court (HC) has quashed the merit list prepared by Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), Sector 32, for Scheduled Caste (SC) candidates under the UT pool for admission to the MBBS course for the 2026-27 academic session.

The HC bench of justice Suvir Shegal and justice Rajesh Gaur acted on a clutch of petitions challenging the final list, which treated "migrant SC candidates" as general candidates, thereby denying them the reservation.

GMCH has 200 MBBS seats in all, out of which, 156 is for UT pool candidates, including reserved seats, while the remaining seats are for all-India quota, foreign and NRI students.

Prospectus did not distinguish between SC & migrated SC candidat...