Kerala High Court holds one-year senior residency bond runs from the date PG results are published

1 October 2026

Justice Viju Abraham held that the mandatory one-year senior residency obligation of postgraduate doctors from government medical colleges begins on the date the examination result is published, and not on the date they are actually posted.
The judge said the obligation starts from the date of publication of the result irrespective of whether a posting could be granted soon after.
The court described postgraduate doctors being left idle without a posting as a national waste.
The government was directed to decide within one month whether to create supernumerary posts for the petitioners or to relieve them of the bond obligation.
The judgment is reported as 2026 LiveLaw (Ker) 539 in WP(C) Nos. 25441 and 9651 of 2026.
The court referred to the earlier Division Bench decision in Ayisha Beegam v. State of Kerala.