Patna, (Bihar Times): Notwithstanding the chief
minister’s 24 hours ultimatum to the doctors of the
Patna Medical College Hospital the stir spread to
Nalanda Medical College Hospital, Patna, and Shri
Krishna Medical College Hospital, Muzaffarpur. In a
related development lawyers on Saturday decided not to
take up the case of junior doctors facing non-bailable
warrant of arrest in lensmen assault case.
The decision was taken at an emergency meeting of the
District Bar Association. The Association dubbed the
attack on photographers as inhuman and unfortunate. As
on Sunday last the doctors had a clash with a
lawyer-attendant, Sanjay Bharti, after the death of
her daughter, the Association naturally threw its lot
behind the lensmen, who are already up in arms against
the PMCH authorities.
According to the secretary of the Association Arvind
Kumar the lawyers unanimously decided not to file the
anticipatory bail application or any other matter of
the junior doctors charged with assaulting lensmen on
Thursday. The Association resolved to paralyze the
functioning of the court in case any of the lawyers
took up the matters of the guilty doctors.
The court had issued NBW against seven junior doctors
of the PMCH for brutally assaulting the photo
journalists on the hospital campus when they had gone
there.
Meanwhile, police are yet to arrest any doctor
notwithstanding raids at several places in the city.
The journalists and Press photographers have already
ganged up against the doctors. In such a situation the
state government is finding itself in a fix,
especially the health minister, Nand Kishore Yadav,
who has a running battle with the chief minister,
Nitish Kumar and the deputy chief minister, Sushil
Kumar Modi, who incidentally belongs to his own party,
the BJP.
