chennai the madras high court on friday restrained the tamil nadu government from issuing admission cards to plus two students selected for mbbs course this year even as the sixday counselling for mbbs courses started in chennai a division bench headed by justice satish k agnihotri made it clear that it could not allow the authorities to issue admission cards to candidates till a case filed by present batch of plus two students opposing participation of previous year students was settled a large number of students have moved the court stating that taking advantage of low cut off marks in plus two this year more than 4670 students from previous years have applied for mbbs counselling this year their counsel v raghavachari submitted that at least 50 of the available 2200odd mbbs seats would be garnered by candidates from previous years on friday advocategeneral a l somayaji and special government pleader d krishnakumar sought to play down their fears saying only 548 mbbs seats would go to previous year students however after the bench made it clear that it would not allow counselling and admissions till the issue was settled the government gave an undertaking that they would not issue admission letters to anyone after this undertaking was given the court said counselling could go on but no admission shall be done till monday when the bench would hear all the matters the bench terming it as s serious case involving a large number of students said it could hear the main case pending before a single judge only if the government and litigants filed a joint memo requesting transfer of the writ petition before the bench