Karnataka High Court allows OCI students to appear for CET-2022 under general category
The High Court of Karnataka has permitted the Overseas Citizens of India (OCI) category students to register for the Common Entrance Test (CET)-2022 and participate in the counselling on a par with Indian citizens to pursue their bachelor degree in the general category of seats in engineering, architecture, ayurveda, and other professional courses. A vacation Division Bench comprising Justice R. Devdas and Justice K.S. Hemalekha passed the interim order on April 28 on a batch of petitions filed by Vivek Goutam and several other students belonging to the OCI category. All eligible OCI students The Bench also made it clear that benefit of this interim order would not be restricted to only the petitioner-students, but will be made applicable to all eligible OCI students for the academic year 2022-23. The Bench passed the interim order on noticing that the Supreme Court, acting on a batch of petitions questioning limiting admission only under NRI category of seats to OCI students, in Febr