The Calcutta High Court on Thursday sought a report from the Director of Institute Of Post Graduate Medical Education & Research (IPGMER) also referred Seth Sukhlal Karnani Memorial Hospital (SSKM) Hospital on allegation that the State run health facility is providing safe shelter to accused in school jobs scam.
A division bench of Chief Justice T.S. Sivagnanam and Justice Supratim Bhattacharya passed the order while hearing public interest litigation that patients are facing difficulties to the prolonged stay of high-profile and politically influential persons at the hospital.
“Allegation is, you are sheltering them, as a result of which, the entire infrastructure gets blocked and a third party who is suffering will not be given treatment because a battery of doctors are behind this influential people... It is a very serious allegation against you... File an affidavit giving a list of influential persons in hospital... They say that the doctors are helpless,“ the Chief Justice orally observed.
