Strike continues at Aligarh’s JNMC, 2 FIRs against 3 doctors

ALIGARH: AMU Students’ Union (AMUSU) cabinet member Zaid Sherwani and his sister-in-law on Tuesday lodged two FIRs against three striking doctors of Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College (JNMC), alleging that the doctors pushed, threatened and misbehaved with them.

They named two doctors as accused in the first FIR and three doctors in the second.

The FIR lodged by Sherwani’s sister-in-law stated that she had gone to ward no 16 at the medical college around 10 pm on March 28 with her three-year-old ailing daughter where Dr Asha, Dr Iftikhar and Dr Siddharth were on duty.

They allegedly did not attend

› AMU VC Tariq Mansoor assured the doctors that justice will be done to them but they must withdraw the strike ZEESHAN AHMED, PRO, AMU

to the child. When she further requested them to see the child, they misbehaved, it was alleged.

On getting information, her brother-in-law Zaid Sherwani also reached there and the doctors allegedly misbehaved with him also. Civil Lines police inspector Javed Khan said, “FIR has been registered against three doctors.”

In the other FIR, Sherwani alleged that he was threatened and pushed by Dr Asha and Dr Iftikhar.

Meanwhile, the junior doctors’ strike continued at JNMC for the sixth day and talks between AMU V-C Tariq Mansoor and the RDA office-bearers remained inconclusive. To recall, an argument between the AMUSU cabinet member and a lady doctor on Wednesday led to the strike by junior doctors. Since then, emergency services at the medical have been paralysed.

The AMU administration declared the strike as ‘illegal’ and urged doctors to resume their duties.