Jaya probe panel asks ‘why health secy in the same post since 2012’
Siddharth.Prabhakar@timesgroup.com
Chennai: 25.01.2019
In a 26-page order rejecting Apollo Hospitals’ plea for a 21 member medical board, the Justice (retd) A Arumughaswamy commission has also delved into bureaucratic appointments and questioned how health secretary, J Radhakrishnan, had been occupying the same post since 2012‘without interruption’.
The commission in paragraph 49 of the order said even the portfolio of judges in the Madras high court were being changed once every three months. Arumughaswamy quoted his own experience of being a judge in the Madurai bench, where his portfolio was changed once every nine months.
In context to his deposition about not taking Jayalalithaa abroad for treatment stating a combination of factors including Jayalalithaa’s own wish and the opinion of doctors treating her, the commission in paragraph 48 of the order accused Radhakrishnan of ‘glooming about the treatment of politicians in a foreign country’.
It is not unusual for judges to make such comments, said Justice (retd) K Chandru. However, such observations should be pertinent and proper; in this case the portfolio shift of high court judges and government secretaries cannot be compared, Chandru said.
Siddharth.Prabhakar@timesgroup.com
Chennai: 25.01.2019
In a 26-page order rejecting Apollo Hospitals’ plea for a 21 member medical board, the Justice (retd) A Arumughaswamy commission has also delved into bureaucratic appointments and questioned how health secretary, J Radhakrishnan, had been occupying the same post since 2012‘without interruption’.
The commission in paragraph 49 of the order said even the portfolio of judges in the Madras high court were being changed once every three months. Arumughaswamy quoted his own experience of being a judge in the Madurai bench, where his portfolio was changed once every nine months.
In context to his deposition about not taking Jayalalithaa abroad for treatment stating a combination of factors including Jayalalithaa’s own wish and the opinion of doctors treating her, the commission in paragraph 48 of the order accused Radhakrishnan of ‘glooming about the treatment of politicians in a foreign country’.
It is not unusual for judges to make such comments, said Justice (retd) K Chandru. However, such observations should be pertinent and proper; in this case the portfolio shift of high court judges and government secretaries cannot be compared, Chandru said.
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