Calcutta HC dismisses Govt plea in RG Kar Doctors' Transfer Case

Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Thursday dismissed an appeal by the West Bengal government seeking to transfer the hearing on the transfer of three doctors who led the RG Kar rape-murder case protests. The court also barred the government from taking any coercive action against them until the matter is heard, the sources said.

Single bench judge Justice Biswajit Basu, after hearing the argument and counterargument, said Mahato's case is to be heard in his chamber and not at any state civil service tribunal.

According to a UNI report, the state government had sought that since Mahato is a government employee and the state exchequer pays his salary, his plea against the transfer be heard at a state tribunal.

The court also had asked the government to give in writing as to why these doctors were not given their desired postings.

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Besides Mahato, two other medics, Debasish Haldar and Asfaqullah Naiya, also moved the Calcutta High Court seeking judicial intervention after they were transferred far off, denying them to have their choices which were assured during counselling.