Gujrat: MP sentenced to three years jail for assaulting a doctor
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Violence against doctors is slowly becoming a routine at government hospitals across the country. So is probably the VIP culture, whereby prominent people allegedly use their positions of power to get special treatment at government hospitals, a fact which goes against the very purpose, for which these hospitals had been established.
Repeatedly, we see doctors approaching the doors of the judiciary asking for justice against such heinous acts of violence. Cases are filed and doctors engage in their fights to get justice against the lawbreakers.
In such a scenario, a recent judgement of a court has come providing relief to the medical profession on account of one such mishap .Setting precedence for others to follow, a Gujrat session's court has sentenced a BJP MP, Naran Kachhadiya to three years' imprisonment and fine of Rs 25000 for assaulting a doctor.
This verdict comes as a response to an event that took place in the year 2013 when an Amreli civil hospital doctor,Dr Bhimji Dabhi was beaten up in month of January 2013 when he allegedly refused to treat Ravi Joshi, 23, son of woman BJP leader Madhuben Joshi. It is reported that Dabhi asked the patient to wait as he was tending to another person. This led to an argument between the patient and the doctor, following which the patient called up Kachhadia who came to the hospital and beat up Dr Dabhi, apart from hurling casteist abuse. Dabhi belongs to a scheduled caste. The hospital staff went on a flash strike to protest against the assault.
Repeatedly, we see doctors approaching the doors of the judiciary asking for justice against such heinous acts of violence. Cases are filed and doctors engage in their fights to get justice against the lawbreakers.
In such a scenario, a recent judgement of a court has come providing relief to the medical profession on account of one such mishap .Setting precedence for others to follow, a Gujrat session's court has sentenced a BJP MP, Naran Kachhadiya to three years' imprisonment and fine of Rs 25000 for assaulting a doctor.
This verdict comes as a response to an event that took place in the year 2013 when an Amreli civil hospital doctor,Dr Bhimji Dabhi was beaten up in month of January 2013 when he allegedly refused to treat Ravi Joshi, 23, son of woman BJP leader Madhuben Joshi. It is reported that Dabhi asked the patient to wait as he was tending to another person. This led to an argument between the patient and the doctor, following which the patient called up Kachhadia who came to the hospital and beat up Dr Dabhi, apart from hurling casteist abuse. Dabhi belongs to a scheduled caste. The hospital staff went on a flash strike to protest against the assault.
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