HC grants relief to AIIMS doc
A division bench comprising Justices Pradeep Nandrajog and Siddharth Mridul of the Delhi high court has asked the AIIMS authorities to appoint Dr Anand Kumar as the professor of reproductive biology at the premier health institute. The post has been lying vacant for the last ten years because of a legal dispute. In 2000, Dr Kumar’s appointment was quashed by the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT).
The court expressed its concern that doctors spent more time in the corridors of courts and tribunal than in doing productive work in hospitals.
The court pulled up the tribunal for quashing the appointment saying it had approached the case with a “foreclosed mind”.
The tribunal had quashed Dr Anand’s appointment after holding that he did not have the requisite qualification of MD degree in reproductive biology and has a degree in physiology.
The court said, “It has surprised us that the tribunal has commenced the journey by recording that Dr Anand Kumar does not possess a postgraduate qualification or a recognised qualification equivalent thereto in the discipline of reproductive biology,” adding “reasoning given by the tribunal is totally absurd.”
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