Medical officer suspended for molesting nurse in Odisha's Paradip

Medical officer suspended for molesting nurse in Odisha's Paradip

Sources said the victim was performing her duty in the hospital on Tuesday night when Badal Singh allegedly grabbed her hand and forced himself on her.

Published: 15th August 2021 10:13 AM 

By Express News Service

PARADIP: The medical officer of Paradip Port Hospital was placed under suspension on Saturday after being booked by police for allegedly outraging the modesty of a nurse while she was on duty.

The accused was identified as Badal Singh. Sources said the victim was performing her duty in the hospital on Tuesday night when Singh allegedly grabbed her hand and forced himself on her. When she resisted, the doctor touched her inappropriately and molested her.

Following the incident, the nurse approached the hospital authorities but no action was taken against the accused. She lodged an FIR with Paradip Model police on Friday. Basing on her complaint, police registered a case. Paradip Model IIC Rajanikant Mishra said police interrogated the accused doctor and released him after serving notice under section 41 of CrPC.

“We are waiting for the report of the hospital’s internal complaints committee and further investigation is on,” he added. Chief medical officer of the hospital Prahallad Panda said the authorities of Paradip Port Trust have suspended the accused doctor.

Hospital salutes UP doctor who worked 20 hours/day for 2 years, names lab after mom

Hospital salutes UP doctor who worked 20 hours/day for 2 years, names lab after mom

TNN | Aug 14, 2021, 04.04 AM IST

MEERUT: The day Dr Atul Srivastava’s mother died, over 300 Covid test reports were lying on his desk, waiting for his approval. It was April 30. The microbiologist at Muzaffarnagar Medical College rushed to his mother’s funeral for just two hours, cremated her and made his way back to the lab he had been painstakingly putting together for over a year.

Since April last year, the Covid research and diagnostics lab at the hospital was all he had worked for — 20 hours a day, testing over 20,000 samples without a single day of leave. On Friday, the hospital formally inaugurated the lab with a salute to the doctor — it was named ‘Smt Jai Shri Sinha Diagnostic and Research Laboratory’ after his mother.

“For me, this is dedicated to all frontline warriors who went down fighting the disease and saving lives,” Srivastava, 40, said. An MBBS from Lala Lajpat Rai Memorial Medical College in Meerut, he did his microbiology postgraduation from Christian Medical College in Ludhiana before joining the Muzaffarnagar Medical College’s microbiology department in April 2016. It was in April last year, when the country had just begun to realise the seriousness of the pandemic, that he was asked to set up the lab.

“We started working day and night to structure the lab … It was difficult. There was no technical knowhow because the labs that were around were either new or working overtime. I had to depend on my instincts and the literature available on the internet. I spoke to equipment manufacturers, learnt about things on my own and, now, we have an 18-room lab,” he said. In October, the Indian Council of Medical Research allowed the lab to start conducting tests. Since then, he has tested 20,662 samples. “I had three assistants and we worked round the clock to ensure there was no report backlog.”

HC: Seeking dad’s info for IVF kids affront to women’s dignity

HC: Seeking dad’s info for IVF kids affront to women’s dignity

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Kochi:17.08.2021

Requiring a single parent or unwed mother who conceived through assisted reproductive technology (ART) such as IVF to reveal sperm donor’s name for registration of baby’s birth violates right to privacy, the Kerala High Court has held.

The ruling was given by Justice Sathish Ninan after considering a petition filed, through advocate A Aruna, by a divorcee who opted for IVF. It was contended by the petitioner that the form for registration of birth requires disclosure of the child’s father’s name.

The identity of the sperm donor has been kept anonymous by the clinic and requiring her to reveal it violates right to privacy, liberty, and dignity, the petition said.

After referring to the Supreme Court’s judgments on right to privacy, including KS Puttuswamy vs Union of India, the court perused a copy of The Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Bill, 2020. The court noted that right of a single woman to maintain confidentiality is being maintained in the bill too. In the judgment, the court said, “Having conceived through ART procedure, the identity of the sperm donor cannot be disclosed except in circumstances as may be compelled for, under law. It falls within the realm of the ‘right of privacy’.”

Bombay HC judge quits, says reasons purely personal

Bombay HC judge quits, says reasons purely personal

Swati.Deshpande@timesgroup.com

Mumbai:17.08.2021

Justice Dama Seshadri Naidu of Bombay high court tendered in his resignation, effective August 17, citing personal reasons. Naidu was appointed a judge of the high court in March 2019 and at 59, he still had three years left to complete his tenure. On Monday, confirming his decision to resign, he told TOI, speaking from Andhra Pradesh, “I had purely personal reasons.’’ Naidu added, “I enjoyed every minute of being a judge and it was my privilege. I did until the end to the best of ability.’’ He also said, “I have learnt a lot along the way and been encouraged both by my colleagues on the bench and the bar in Maharashtra and in Kerala which rendered brilliant assistance.’’ Lawyers expressed surprise as word had spread of the resignation. Once a high court judge puts in his papers to the President, there is no acceptance that is required. With him leaving, the judge strength at the HC will be down to 62. The sanctioned strength is 94. Justice Naidu’s is the third resignation of HC judges in three years. Last year, the senior-most judge of Bombay HC Justice S C Dharmadhikari resigned with effect from February 15.

Air India to fly Goa-London from Aug 26

Air India to fly Goa-London from Aug 26

Panaji:17.08.2021

Spelling good news for students and overseas residents, Air India has announced direct flights between Goa and the UK from August 26. Air India will operate a flight on the London (Heathrow)-Goa sector as part of the air bubble arrangement with the UK.

According to Air India, the flight schedule till August 31 has been released, but further flights could be scheduled in the months to come. At present, passengers have to fly to Mumbai or Delhi to catch an international flight to London.

“The flights can be booked through the Air India website, offices and travel agents,” Air India said.

Daily footfalls cross 11,000

Given the extraordinary situation due to the Covid-19 pandemic, schedules are subject to change,” Air India said.

Air India will also commence direct flights to London from Kolkata and Chennai.

Last December, India enforced a ban on flights from the UK. According to officials at Goa International Airport, Air India used to operate one UK-bound flight every week, which was cancelled when the Union ministry of civil aviation and the Union home ministry decided to restrict UK flights after a steep rise in Covid-19 cases.

Officials said that with cases declining in India as well as in Goa, a calibrated resumption of international flights is being tested out. Repatriation flights continue to operate from Goa International Airport, largely to the middle-east region while domestic flight operations have seen a rise. Daily passenger footfalls have crossed 11,000 with close to100 flights operating on a daily basis from the terminal.

Admission to govt schools without TC not final

Admission to govt schools without TC not final

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Jaipur:17.08.2021

Temporary admission of students in government schools from private schools, without any transfer certificate, will not be made permanent.

Schools’ administration have been asked to register their National Informatics Centre (NIC) ID in Shala Darpan as a routine process, but those students will not be made permanent. During the pandemic, many students found it difficult to pay private schools’ fees and private schools were said to have allegedly harassed them. Hence, government issued a rule to admit students without transfer certificates temporarily, in government schools.

But government has made it clear that those students will not be enrolled in scholar register i.e. enrollment register.

This has come as relief to private school owners who had complained earlier that giving admission to students without transfer certificates will impact them. Anil Sharma, president of School Shiksha Pariwar, has also objected to this rule.

NGO comes forward to help students get edu

Jaipur:

Smile for All, an NGO, has started a new campaign ‘Shiksha Tumhari-Zimmedari Hamari’ intending to provide school education to 1,000 children, who are deprived of education. The campaign run from August15 to August 21 through all types of media platforms. It aims to connect philanthropists with ‘Happiness Subscription’ of Smile for All.

The Happiness Subscription is a page created on the organisation’s website, where philanthropists fund a child’s education by donating just Rs. 500 (per month). Donors will be given all the information related to the sponsored child’s education every month. TNN

2nd marriage not violence against divorced 1st wife: HC

2nd marriage not violence against divorced 1st wife: HC

Vaibhav.Ganjapure@timesgroup.com

Nagpur:17.08.2021

The Nagpur bench of Bombay HC has ruled that the act of a man marrying for the second time can’t be treated as a case of domestic violence against his divorced first wife.

Admitting a petition filed by a Jalgaon resident, his parents and sister, Justice Manish Pitale said the primary appellant's first wife could have filed a case against her ex-husband under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005, only if she were still married to him. "But the said fact in itself (the man marrying a second time) would not be enough for her to initiate proceedings under the DV Act since the divorce proceedings have attained finality."

The judge censured the Akola-based woman for filing a case against her in-laws to "harass them", calling it an "abuse of the process of law".

"The wife could not be permitted to keep the husband and in-laws engaged in litigation in this form, when the DV Act’s requirements did not appear to be satisfied. The chronology of events indicates that she sought to invoke provisions after her divorce case attained finality up to the Supreme Court. It was not as if she initiated a proceeding during the matrimonial discord between the parties," Justice Pitale said.

Quashing an Akola court's May 17, 2016, notice rejecting the petition to dismiss proceedings sought by the wife under the domestic violence act, the judge pointed out that it was only after she suffered "adverse orders" in the divorce case that she sought to invoke that law.

Full report on www.toi.in