Gurugram: Calling disciplinary action “highly disturbing” and “manifestly arbitrary”, the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Friday pulled up the Haryana government for punishing a doctor who did not rise from his chair when an MLA entered the emergency ward of a hospital during the Covid-19 pandemic.

A division bench of justices Ashwani Kumar Mishra and Rohit Kapoor ordered the state health department to issue a no-objection certificate (NOC) to Dr Manoj, who needed it to pursue a post-graduate medical course.

The HC also imposed costs of Rs 50,000 on the state, observing that expecting a doctor to stand when an MLA enters the emergency ward—and proposing disciplinary action if he doesn’t—was “insensitive” and “wholly unjust”. Show Full Article

Dr Manoj, a casualty medical officer with

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