On October 28, 2025, a Division Bench of the Gauhati High Court (Chief Justice Ashutosh Kumar and Justice Arun Dev Choudhury) overturned a single judge’s ruling and upheld the Nagaland government’s 2021 notification excluding wards of defence personnel from the Central Pool MBBS quota allocated to the state. The case, The State of Nagaland and Others v. Vatsala Panghal and Another (WA/260/2025) , clarifies the distinct policy objectives of separate quota categories. Backg
