The Delhi High Court on Wednesday (August 7) directed the Secretary of the Social Welfare Department to take prompt action, including the recruitment of staff such as doctors, for the city government-run... Read more »
The Supreme Court expressed the need to reconsider its 1996 ruling regarding the applicability of the Consumer Protection Act (CPA) to medical professionals. In the case of Indian Medical Association v VP... Read more »
The Bombay High Court determined that a student was wrongfully admitted to an MBBS degree program at a renowned college in Mumbai in 2012 under the OBC category using a non-creamy layer... Read more »
The Himachal Pradesh High Court has criticized doctors at Palampur Civil Hospital for subjecting a minor rape survivor to the two-finger test. The court directed the state government to compensate the child... Read more »
The Parliament has recently passed new criminal code bills, and it has been conveyed to Parliament that doctors are now exempt from criminal prosecution in instances of death resulting from medical negligence,... Read more »
The Supreme Court recently held that allopathy doctors and Ayurveda doctors do not perform equal hence, are not entitled to equal pay. The court noted that the Ayurveda doctors can’t perform emergency... Read more »
The Bombay Court has recently granted bail to hospital owners and a doctor accused of distributing fake COVID vaccines in several vaccination camps throughout Mumbai, remarking that the alleged fake vaccines did... Read more »
The Allahabad High Court has recently directed the state government to issue directives to the state’s Chief Medical Officers (CMOs) regarding the preparation of legible postmortem reports or injury reports in typed... Read more »
The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a petition filed by seventeen doctors seeking a postponement of the National Eligibility Cumulative Entrance Test (NEET) postgraduate examination scheduled for March 5, 2023. The petitioners... Read more »
The Gujarat High Court issued an order on Tuesday establishing a committee to investigate two incidences that were brought to its attention in a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) complaint alleging that two... Read more »