High Court gives two days to file counter-affidavit

Our Legal Correspondent / TNN / Jul 13, 2005, 02:11 IST

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HYDERABAD: The striking junior doctors on Tuesday managed to get two days time for filing a counter-affidavit in the cases pending against them before the High Court.

High Court gives two days to file counter-affidavit

HYDERABAD: The striking junior doctors on Tuesday managed to get two days time for filing a counter-affidavit in the cases pending against them before the High Court.
Advocate and civil liberties leader K Balagopal appearing for the striking junior doctors sought two days time and said that his clients have a right to be heard as the matter has far-reaching consequences.The doctors had again gone on strike despite a High Court order against it.
At one stage, the Bench comprising acting Chief Justice Bilal Nazki and Justice G Chandraiah examined the possibility of initiating a contempt case against the principal secretary (health) I V Subba Rao for his alleged comments to the media that the High Court had directed the government to take punitive action against striking doctors. To Balagopal's request for more time to file a counter-affidavit, the acting Chief Justice shot back that whether the patients should be left to die in the interregnum. The doctors' counsel, however, held his own and responded that patients were dying due to lack of medicines and not because of the strike, adding that it was one of the reasons for the doctors' strike.
Balagopal reiterated that the doctors were not striking for enhancement of emoluments. Instead the issue was a case of conflict of rights which needed to be examined after the doctors filed a counter-affidavit. The matter will now be heard on Thursday.

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