RG Kar Case: High Court docket Directs Hospitals To Regularise Physician’s Absence Throughout Protests
New Delhi:
The Supreme Court docket on Wednesday directed hospitals, together with AIIMS New Delhi, to regularise the unauthorised absence of docs who have been a part of protests towards the rape and homicide of a health care provider at RG Kar Hospital, Kolkata.
A bench comprising Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Sanjay Kumar took word of the submissions of a docs’ physique that some hospitals had regularised the absence of the docs following its August 22, 2024 order however a number of others, together with AIIMS Delhi, determined to deal with the interval as depart of absence.
“We deem it applicable to make clear that if protesting staff had joined work put up the Supreme Court docket order then their absence shall be regularised and never be handled as absence from obligation. That is issued in peculiar info and circumstances of the circumstances and isn’t laying down any precedent,” the CJI stated.
The lawyer showing for the physique stated the choice to deal with the protest interval as depart could create hassle for among the medical PG college students.
Solicitor common Tushar Mehta, representing the Centre, stated because the case was non-adversarial, the hospitals would abide by the highest court docket’s instructions.
Mr Mehta stated AIIMS, Delhi, determined to deal with the interval as depart of absence availed by the docs.
“By an earlier order, it was said that no coercive step can be taken towards the protesting docs for protests until the date of the order. Pursuant to this among the AIIMS akin to Kalyani and Gorakhpur and the PGI Chandigarh have regularised the absence. Nonetheless another institutes have handled the stated interval as if docs have been on depart,” stated the bench.
On August 22, final yr, the bench made an impassioned enchantment to the protesting docs throughout the nation, asking them to renew work.
Observing “justice and drugs” could not be stopped, it directed no coercive motion can be taken towards docs as soon as they resumed work.
The heinous crime triggered nationwide outrage and extended protests in West Bengal.
The bench was listening to the suo-motu case over the rape and homicide of a trainee physician within the Kolkata hospital.
On January 20, a Kolkata trial court docket awarded convict Sanjay Roy “life time period imprisonment until loss of life” within the case.
The physique of the post-graduate trainee physician was discovered within the hospital’s seminar room on August 9, final yr following which the Kolkata police arrested civic volunteer Roy the subsequent day in reference to the crime.
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