mumbai admissions after the second round at five medical colleges in the state are likely to be cancelled after november 8 after finding discrepancies in the admission procedure followed at these colleges the pravesh niyantran samiti pns has asked them to file their responses to parents complaints in an affidavit the order was given to the colleges at a meeting on november 2 of the five colleges including ulhas patil medical college in jalgaon ashwini rural medical college in solapur institute of medical science and research in satara and dr vasantrao pawar medical college in nashik the pns received 128 complaints from the jalgaon college alone p e gaikwad the office secretary of the samiti said prima facie it seems that these colleges are at fault their responses given to the parents complaints were not satisfactory however we have asked them to file their responses in affidavits to ensure they are genuine and can be used in further proceedings if they fail to do so the samiti will initiate action against these colleges which will include cancellation of admissions too for example one of the colleges gave postdated cheques to students after they cancelled admissions to go to a better college while the college claimed it was a clerical mistake parents said the postdated cheques were given to more than one student gaikwad added that some other colleges have managed to clarify their stand and therefore will not face action several parents had earlier protested against the samiti for the delay in scrutinizing the admissions one of the parents said the pns finally heard our appeal and reprimanded the colleges in the last hearing hopefully the same outlook will continue till november 8 so that our children get the deserved seats after a sc order this year the association for private unaided medical and dental colleges apumdc in the state conducted only two rounds of admissions and not three like before students then had to apply at institute level for vacant seats however colleges flouted admission norms prescribed by the samiti