Supreme Court refuses to entertain Indian Medical Association’s contempt plea over non-payment of salaries to doctors
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A Bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan, R. Subhash Reddy and M.R. Shah mentioned the difficulty was being handled by the Delhi High Court and there’s no level in entertaining this plea within the Apex Court
The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to entertain a contempt plea filed by Indian Medical Association (IMA) in opposition to the Delhi Chief Secretary for alleged non-payment of salaries to doctors and requested it to strategy the excessive court docket which is coping with the difficulty.
A Bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan, R. Subhash Reddy and M.R. Shah mentioned the difficulty was being handled by the Delhi High Court and there’s no level in entertaining this plea within the apex court docket.
Senior advocate Maninder Singh, showing for IMA, mentioned the wage for April and May was paid after the excessive court docket’s intervention however no wage was paid once more from June to October.
The Bench mentioned the High Court had already handed its order on July 29 and it’s monitoring the difficulty.
Mr. Singh submitted that doctors are termed as frontline warriors they usually have to be paid wage on time however there was no substantial listening to within the excessive court docket.
He mentioned that after the contempt utility was filed within the high court docket, salaries for the months of June to October had been paid to the doctors.
Mr. Singh contended that doctors must be paid their wage on time to which the bench mentioned that there isn’t any doubt that wage has to be paid and Union of India has already handed an order on this regard.
On July 29, the Delhi High Court had informed the AAP authorities to launch to the North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NrDMC) the funds it requires to pay the stipends of the resident doctors within the six hospitals run by the civic physique.
The High Court had requested the Delhi authorities to launch inside 15 days an quantity of ₹8 crore, as was executed by it earlier, to NrDMC with out ready for completion of paperwork in order that the resident doctors might be paid.
It had noticed that the resident doctors don’t get a daily wage and as a substitute they’re solely given stipends or emoluments which ought not to be denied to them.
It had made it clear that the quantity being launched was meant solely for the aim of paying the stipends or emoluments of the resident doctors within the six hospitals of NrDMC. It had additionally directed the company to full all of the paperwork in relation to the ₹8 crore that will be launched by the Delhi authorities and warned that failure to full the formalities would lead to motion in opposition to the officers involved.
The High Court order had come whereas listening to a PIL initiated by it based mostly on information experiences that doctors of Kasturba Gandhi Hospital have threatened to resign as they haven’t been paid salaries since March this yr.
The information experiences have additionally acknowledged that just lately the doctors of North MCD-run Puucho Rao hospital had written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi over non-payment of their salaries for the months of March, April and May.
In its standing report, filed in response to the plea, the company has mentioned that salaries up to May of all resident doctors in hospitals run by the civic physique have been paid.
The company has additionally mentioned in its report that the wage upto April of all of its common doctors have additionally been paid.
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