Students should prove nativity to get seat under TN quota: DME

Justice G Jayachandran while directing the petitioner to furnish the birth certificate of mother along with ration card to show her residential status to the convener, selection committee, said “If sub-clause (b) to Clause 5 has to be strictly interpreted, both mother and father of the candidate should have been born in Tamil Nadu.

The authorities have not anticipated that in some case either one alone will be born in Tamil Nadu, and the candidate will be residing at Tamil Nadu, pursued the studies in Tamil Nadu. By no stretch of imagination such candidates can be termed as other State candidates.”

The petitioner, Aishwarya Ravi, had submitted that she had to be considered as a native of Tamil Nadu since her mother was born and brought up in Chennai. But after her marriage, the family shifted to Andhra Pradesh and elsewhere due to her father’s position as Station Health Officer in Central Government. However, after his retirement, the family has come down to Chennai and is presently living in Chennai.

Aishwarya also submitted that she studied from sixth standard to tenth standard at Kendriya Vidyalalya IIT campus, Adyar and eleventh and twelfth at King’s Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Madipakkam and hence ought to be treated as native of Tamil Nadu and should be placed under the communal roster as per her Community Certificate.

The judge in his order also recorded the submission of the counsel appearing for the selection committee, Directorate of Medical Education, that if the petitioner submits relevant documents to prove the nativity of her mother, they would consider her under the native of Tamil Nadu quota.