Jaipur doctor loses plea for refund of fees on account of six-year delay

BANGALORE: In an interesting as well as peculiar case, the Karnataka high court has dismissed a petition filed by a Doctor from Jaipur in Rajasthan, seeking refund of the course fees she paid for joining a post graduate medical course in a medical college in Karnataka .
"The petition needs to be rejected on account of delay and latches, " Justice Ram Mohan Reddy observed while rejecting the plea of one Dr Aparna Sharma, a resident of Jaipur.This was after the counsel representing the Private Medical college where she had paid the fees strongly opposed the petition claiming that such a petition cannot be maintained after a lapse of six years.
Aparna, who had joined M S (Obstetrics and Gynecology) at B M Patil Medical College Hospital and Research Institute in Bijapur , a city in North Karnataka had paid Rs 5.57 lakhs towards fees for the academic year 2005-06. But, she surrendered the said seat.But, surprisingly, she took five long years to send a representation to the college seeking refund of the one year course fees she had deposited. But the college management sent a communication to her on July 30, 2011 declining the same. Against this, she moved the Karnataka high court on February 16,2012 by filing a writ petition seeking for a direction to the college to refund her fees.