Mumbai, Oct. 10 -- An 18-year-old visually impaired student from Beed district has secured admission to Government Medical College, Sangli Miraj, after the Bombay High Court's Aurangabad Bench intervened in a dispute over her eligibility for medical education.
Syed Musfira Fatema Rafiuddin, who has a benchmark visual disability associated with congenital low vision, albinism, nystagmus and amblyopia, qualified NEET-UG 2026 with 345 marks out of 720 and an All India OBC-NCL PwBD rank of 796. However, the Medical Assessment Board at Sir J J Group of Hospitals, Mumbai, declared her ineligible on August 10, 2026, citing her visual impairment and reliance on low-vision aids.
Through Writ Petition 12738 of 2026, Musfira challenged the decision ...