New Delhi, Sept. 1 -- The Supreme Court today set aside a Telangana High Court judgment that had read down the state's domicile rule for admission into medical colleges, and upheld the validity of the regulation requiring candidates to have resided or studied in Telangana for four consecutive years before the qualifying examination in order to avail of the domicile quota.
A bench comprising Chief Justice of India BR Gavai and Justice K. Vinod Chandran held that the rule was neither exclusionary nor arbitrary, and could not be declared unconstitutional.
The court observed, "At the outset, we have to state that without a definition of what constitutes residence or at least without reference to a statute or rule prescribing the issuance of a...