Friday, February 4, 2011

[ZESTCaste] Doctors apprehend misuse of SC/ST Act

 

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Doctors apprehend misuse of SC/ST Act
PTI | 07:02 PM,Feb 04,2011

Kanpur, Feb 4 (PTI) With four medicos in private clinics being booked
under the SC/ST Act after patients belonging to dalit community died
while undergoing treatment, doctors in the district have expressed
apprehension that it could set off a wrong trend.Devendra Lal
Chandani, Kanpur head of the Indian Medical Association, said that the
doctors are afraid to take up cases, especially when patients are
being brought to them in critical condition, after the recent
incidents."Four private doctors have been booked under the Scheduled
Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act and
Section 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder). A woman
doctor even had to spend 45 days in jail," he said.Chandani said that
the issue was being discussed by IMA members here. "We are trying to
find a solution," he said adding that there should not be any hasty
move by police in such cases."The government should also consider the
issue and help find a middle way," he said.

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