Hyderabad, Aug. 19 -- The Telangana High Court has directed that children of central government employees who are posted outside the state be treated as local candidates for medical admissions, holding there was no justification for denying them an exemption already available to children of state government employees.

A bench of Chief Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh and Justice GM Mohiuddin passed the order while disposing of a petition filed by Kodimela Samhitha, a NEET-UG 2026 candidate who had challenged her exclusion from local candidate status for MBBS and BDS admissions for the 2026-27 academic year at Kaloji Narayana Rao University of Health Sciences.

Local candidate status typically requires a student to have studied in Telangana fo...