The Madras High Court on Monday dismissed a writ petition that sought for a direction to the State government to declare students suffering from Type I diabetes as those belonging to a special category of disability and consequently reserve certain seats for them in MBBS admissions.

Justice M. Dhandapani held that no such direction could be issued by the court. He, however, left it open to the government to take a call on the issue after advocate Naveen Kumar Murthi, engaged through Legal Aid, requested the court to grant some kind of relief