Kolkata: In a new development, West Bengal Human Rights Commission today (Dec 16, 2004) directed the Director of medical education to apprise the panel details of the NRI medical students whose admission in State-run medical colleges had been cancelled by a Supreme Court order, a day after the State Government filed an affidavit of compliance before the apex Court.

State HRC Chairman Justice (Retd) Shyamal Sen told sources that out of 69 students, 38 moved the Commission seeking its intervention in the alleged wrong committed by the State Government as they had to leave their studies which they were pursuing for about five months after their admission in the medical colleges.

HRC Chairman said considering the submission of the 38 students, he had suo motu issued directions upon the Director of Medical Education C R Maity to apprise the Commission, preferably by December 21. Parents and guardians of these students too were asked to place their required documents to the Commission.

The State Government yesterday filed an affidavit of compliance before the Supreme Court on its order cancelling the admissions of 69 NRI candidates in two State-run medical colleges, Chief Minister Buddhadev Bhattacharjee today said.

The affidavit was filed by the State Chief Secretary Ashok Gupta as per the instruction of the apex Court to file the same within two days and posted for further hearing in the first week of January, he told newsmen in Kolkata.

Gupta, who returned from Delhi after filing the affidavit, today met the Chief Minister. He, however, refused to make any comment on the steps to be taken by the State Government about the students whose admission had been cancelled.