Protest in Kolkata over an on-dutydoctor's rape and murder at RG Kar hospital Photo: PTI Protest in Kolkata over an on-dutydoctor's rape and murder at RG Kar hospital Photo: PTI The Supreme Court of India has stated that all doctors who were on protest due to the RG Kar rape and murder case, will not be marked absent from duty. In a ruling favouring the protesting doctors, the SC ruled that attendance shall be regularised if they resumed work after the bench order in August 2024.
The matter was heard by a bench led by Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna. During the hearing, SC asked hospitals, including Delhi AIIMS to regularise doctors' absence during protests over the rape and murder of a resident doctor at RG Kar Hospital in Kolkata.
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Noting that the majority of the hospitals had regularized doctors' attendance while some marked them as absent from duty or on leave.
mulan slot"We deem it appropriate to clarify that in case the doctors have joined after 22.8.24 will be regularised and not treated as absence from duty, this direction is issued in peculiar facts and circumstances and shall not be treated as precedent," said CJI Khanna.
Thousands of doctors launched a protest following the brutal rape and murder of a 31-year-old resident doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata.
Doctors across India announced a strike and boycotted work to demand justice for their colleague. However, on August 22, 2024, the Supreme Court issued an order asking the doctors to resume work.
With this hearing, the top court has ruled that all protesting doctors who resumed work after this order, shall have their attendance regularised.
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