The Madras High Court on Thursday directed Health and Family Welfare secretary to reply to Medical Council of India which had called for comments on allegations of assistant professors in 22 government medical colleges having impersonated as professors during the annual inspections carried out by the council for the last five years.
PIL petition
A Division Bench of Justices S. Manikumar and Subramonium Prasad issued the direction on a public interest litigation petition filed by A. Narayanan of Change India, a non-governmental organisation based here.
The petitioner had made a representation to the Medical Council of India on May 12 and the latter had called for comments from the Health Secretary on June 1.
‘Reply within 8 weeks’
Since the Medical Council of India had already acted upon the representation, the judges directed the Health Secretary to forward his comments, if they had not been sent already, within eight weeks.
On receipt of the remarks, the council was ordered to take necessary action in accordance with law if the allegations were found to be true.
