Good morning. Fertility medicine is on both sides of the law today: one ruling protects doctors when IVF fails, and one police probe is heading for the clinics. Further down, the MBBS seats priced out of reach and Round 2 numbers for nine PG branches. If a patient has ever asked you for a refund after a treatment failed, hit reply and tell me how it ended.
— DR. ADITYA SETH, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
01 · THE LEAD
MEDICOLEGAL
₹3.5 lakh paid, no pregnancy: why the High Court still saw no case for cheating
A Bulandshahr couple had not conceived since their marriage. The husband says the fertility doctor told them IVF could get his wife pregnant; he paid in instalments and was given a single receipt, for ₹1.6 lakh and ₹1.9 lakh extra was paid without a receipt. When he asked for his money back, she refused, and his complaint quotes her: “This is how we make money: by misleading people.” A magistrate heard him, his wife and one other witness, and ordered the doctor to stand trial.
The High Court looked for the one thing the complaint never showed: an intent to deceive at the first consultation. A treatment that fails later proves nothing about that, the court said, and offering IVF, with its built-in failure rates, is not a promise of pregnancy. On the summons, it held that two supporting witnesses are not enough; a magistrate has to test their evidence and can question them himself.
WHY IT MATTERS
Answer a refund demand in writing, with what was done and what it cost; this complaint’s sharpest line came from a refusal said out loud.
Give a dated receipt for every instalment that names the stage of treatment it pays for.
Put the success rate you quoted the couple, as a number, in a consent both partners sign.
02 · MEDICOLEGAL
She was offered ₹20,000 for her eggs. Police say someone else signed for her.
Police in Hyderabad rescued 43 women who had been brought from West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and other states, housed in the city and sent to fertility centres for egg retrieval. The organisers made about ₹3 lakh a cycle, ten to fifteen times what each woman was promised. Under the ART Act there is no legal rate at all: a donor comes only through a registered ART bank, and only once in her life. Police are now matching every woman against IVF centre records, with searches of fertility centres to follow. Which centres did the retrievals is still unanswered.
03 · NEET PG
Ophthalmology’s best rank, 175, chose DNB at Aravind over government MS
Half of all DNB Ophthalmology seats went to ranks good enough for government MS. Government MS Open seats ran out at rank 19,165 in this year’s Round 1. Last year Round 1 closed at 16,969, nearly two in three government MS allottees let their seat go, and Round 2 pushed the cut-off to 19,730. Round 2 registration opens on 6 November, and the piece works out where every category could land.
Before Round 2, branch by branch: All branches · Medicine · Radiology · Dermatology · Surgery · Paediatrics · OBGY · Orthopaedics · Anaesthesia
04 · MBBS ADMISSIONS
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MBBS 2026
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837 MBBS seats found no takers in central counselling, even after colleges cut fees by up to 40%
One family got a deemed-university seat in Tamil Nadu down from ₹25 lakh a year to ₹15 lakh, through a middleman. After Round 3, 3,426 seats were still empty; at the same stage last year there were 802, and the stray round filled every one. This year the stray round left seats behind, and 824 of them sit in deemed universities in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry.
06 · AIR QUALITY
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AQI · TUE 3 NOV, 9:30 PM Faridkot hit 718. Delhi, at 404, was merely the worst metro. The eight worst readings on AQI.in’s live ranking all came from Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan. The site rates Faridkot 29 times above standard, and Karnal, home to EndorphinMD, came eighth.
Other metros: Kolkata 197, Ahmedabad 170, Pune 168, Chennai 157, Mumbai 148, Bengaluru 78, Hyderabad 68. All nine bars are past 300, where AQI.in’s Hazardous band begins. At that level the US EPA advises everyone to avoid outdoor exertion, and people with heart or lung disease, older adults and children to stay indoors. Readings are US-scale AQI from AQI.in; India’s CPCB index stops at 500, so its numbers won’t match. |
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