India shuts Kashmir medical college after Muslims earned most admissions: Al Jazeera

India has shut down a medical college in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir in over the admission of an overwhelming number of Muslim students into the prestigious course, Al Jazeera said in its latest report.

India’s National Medical Commission (NMC), a central regulatory authority for medical education and practices, on January 6 revoked the recognition of Mata Vaishno Devi Medical Institute, located in Reasi, in Jammu region.

Of the 50 pupils who joined the five-year bachelor’s in medicine (MBBS) programme in November, Al Jazeera report said, 42 were Muslims, most of them residents of Kashmir, while seven were Hindus and one was a Sikh. It was the first MBBS batch that the private college had launched.