New Delhi, June 02, 2015 : AIIMS has moved Delhi high court seeking permission to replace its forensic department head Dr Sudhir Kumar Gupta, who has alleged discrimination after he claimed to have refused to act unprofessionally in the Sunanda Pushkar autopsy case.
All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) has sought the court’s permission to appoint Dr D N Bhardwaj as the new head of its forensic medicine and toxicology department. The court is slated to hear the matter on July 23.
The court’s March 25 order had come on Gupta’s plea challenging a March 4 decision of the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) rejecting his charge that one Dr O P Murty was promoted after purging his seniority, with the purpose of obtaining a “tailor-made report” in the sensational murder case of Sunanda Pushkar Tharoor.
He also alleged that AIIMS had illegally purged his seniority with “malafide intention” to punish him for refusing to act unprofessionally in the autopsy matter.
In its application, AIIMS said that Bhardwaj was senior to Gupta by four years and that Gupta had not challenged the former’s seniority either before CAT or in the high court.
In his complaint before the tribunal, Gupta had claimed he was asked to prepare tailor-made autopsy report giving clean chit, irrespective of his professional conclusions, after conducting autopsy on Pushkar’s body.
Gupta’s plea has also alleged that Murty had “started creating difficulty in the routine functioning of Gupta as HoD, claiming seniority illegally conferred upon him.”
He has contended that the CAT findings were “illegal and contrary to the law and facts and circumstances of the present case”. TOI
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