It has been going on for some time meritorious students being denied admission on one pretext or the other by private professional colleges, which eye the less meritorious ones so they can charge a hefty capitation fee. The Supreme Court, after hearing several petitions alleging massive bungling in admissions to private college, hit the bulls eye during one such petition, and put a poser - why should such institutions not be asked to pay damages and face derecognition for denying admissions to meritorious students? A petition was filed last year by a candidate Vijay Jamini, who through counsel Suresh C Tripathy alleged that NDMVP Samajs Medical College at Nashik, despite receiving his application in time for the outside Maharashtra quota, refused to accept it, but gave admission to people who had secured considerably lesser marks than him. When the court sought the view of the Medical Council of India (MCI), Counsel Maninder Singh said the tendency of playing with the careers of the students for generating enormous funds for the colleges should be severely dealt with, if one had to keep up the standard of medical education in the country. The Bench, comprising Justices Y K Sabharwal, S H Kapadia and C K Thakker, found that various candidates who had secured marks less than Jamini were granted admission much after the date when the college refused to accept his application.