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| HC orders enquiry against doctor for grave professional misconduct | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Feb 23: High Court of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh has ordered an enquiry against a doctor for grave professional misconduct .
In a case of motor accident claim, Justice Tashi Rabstan while hearing a appeal in Motor Accident Claim Tribunal, observed that as per the status report filed on behalf of the doctor, who was holding a top post in the Health Department , and has retired from service in 2019, had clearly conducted grave professional misconduct thereby issuing number of Permanent Disability Certificates, though being not competent to issue such certificates, and the beneficiaries of said certificates managed to get hefty amount of compensation from the learned Motor Accidents Claims Tribunals from time to time without there being any such disability thereby causing wrongful loss to the insurance companies, as such competent authority is hereby directed to conduct inquiry into the conduct of the doctor for issuing notice to him as to why his license as a doctor be not cancelled/terminated immediately thereby removing his name from the list of medical practitioners and he be debarred from practicing as a doctor henceforth.
The High Court directed the Director Health Services to submit the compliance report/action taken report in this regard before the Registrar (Judicial) of this Court positively within a period of three months from the date of delivering this judgment.
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