A day after the West Bengal doctors called off their strike, the Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to pass any urgent orders on plea to provide security to doctors in government hospitals.
A bench of Justices Deepak Gupta and Surya Kant said the matter would be posted before appropriate bench after summer vacations. “Now the strike is over, we are not going to pass any order. We listed the matter for today due to urgency. But now, the strike has been called off, list it before appropriate bench,” the court said.
Supreme Court refused to pass any order today on the petition seeking to provide security to doctors in government hospitals, directed the matter to be listed before an appropriate bench after vacation. pic.twitter.com/XQ6gm0H6nT
— ANI (@ANI) June 18, 2019
Advocate Alakh Alok Srivastava, who filed the PIL in his own name, urged the court to issue a notice in the matter.
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Meanwhile, the Indian Medical Association (IMA) has filed an ‘Intervention Application’ (IA) and supported the cause of the petitioner in the case.
The top court was hearing a plea seeking the safety and security of doctors in government hospitals across the country.
The plea was filed on Friday (June 14) in the wake of protests by doctors in Bengal against the assault on their colleagues by the family of a patient, who died on Monday (June 10) night.
The junior doctors of Bengal, who have been protesting since June 10, have called off their strike hours after meeting with West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at Nabanna yesterday (June 17).