KARACHI, May 5: In line with an order passed by the Sindh High Court, the principal of Sindh Medical College has asked 26 petitioner students who are alleged to have obtained admissions on the basis of fake documents to appear before him on Tuesday.

A referee judge of Sindh High Court, Justice Ghulam Rabbani, had asked the SMC principal on May 3 to hear the expelled MBBS final-year students

on May 6 or any other date by May 9.

The students, who were earlier allowed by a division bench to appear in written examinations, conducted by the University of Karachi, provisionally, had pleaded before the court for permission to appear in the on-going MBBS (Final) viva-voce examinations.

Earlier this year, the principal had asked about 62 students to show cause why their admissions to the college should not be cancelled. The principal had asked the students to submit documents to prove the validity of their admissions to the SMC. Some of the students, however, failed to comply with the principal’s order within the stipulated period.

Now, after the court order of May 3, the principal has issued a list of 26 students asking them to appear before him positively on Tuesday at 11am in an office of the health department at the New SIndh Secretariat Building No 1.

The principal has asked all of these students to be personally present and submit in original their PRC, domicile, matriculation and Intermediate certificates and admission offer letters of SMC principal to prove the bona fide of their admissions to the college.

According to a notification of the college, the following students have been asked to appear before the principal Syed Shaharyar Shah, Farrukh Sair, Saif- ur-Rehman, Waqar Nawaz, Masood Rauf, Jehangir, Shazia Ajab Khan, Shahzad Hussain, Malik Gohar Ali, Karim Wahab, Abdul Saboor Khan, Sajjad Khan, Muhammad Ayaz Khan, Ali Shad Khan, Nasar Khan, Salma Gul, Zeshan Alam, Tassaduq Khan, Gulfam, Uzma Farid, Muhammad Khan, Ambreen Ehsan, Noreen Ehsan, Basma Khalid, Tariq Sami and Hina Ambreen.