UP govt withdraws re-inquiry against Dr Kafeel Khan
The order for a departmental re-inquiry against suspended paediatrician Dr Kafeel Khan has been withdrawn, the Uttar Pradesh authorities has knowledgeable the Allahabad High Court. The order of a departmental re-inquiry was given on February 24 final 12 months.
Additional Advocate General Manish Goyal advised the court docket on Friday, “The order of 24 February, 2020 impugned in this petition has been withdrawn subject to liberty being reserved for the respondents to proceed in the matter afresh and in light of what was noted by the court in its order of July 29, 2021”.
It was additional submitted earlier than the court docket of Justice Yashwant Varma that every one endeavours shall be made to conclude the disciplinary proceedings inside a interval of three months.
The court docket has listed the case for listening to on August 10 (Tuesday).
In the writ petition, it was disclosed that seven individuals out of 9 who had been suspended together with the petitioner have been reinstated pending conclusion of disciplinary proceedings. The order for suspension against Dr Khan was handed on August 22, 2017.
Earlier on July 29 this 12 months, the court docket seen that though the petitioner had been suspended again in 2017, the inquiry proceedings had not but been concluded until the submitting of the petition.
By an order of March 7, 2019, the petition was disposed of with a course to the respondents (the state authorities) to conclude the inquiry inside three months.
In pursuance to that course, the court docket was knowledgeable that the Enquiry Officer submitted his report on April 15, 2019. The disciplinary authority, nonetheless, selected to cross the impugned order after almost 11 months.
It is to be recalled that Dr Khan had challenged his suspension in reference to the dying of a number of kids resulting from alleged scarcity of oxygen at a authorities hospital in Gorakhpur district.
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