Re-instate sacked colleagues, demand AMU resident docs

alleged gang rape and death case of a woman in Hathras. Such orders for discontinuation of services by these two doctors are biased,” said Mohammad Hamza Maik, president of RDA.

To recall, Dr Mohammad Azimuddin Malik and Dr Obaid Imtiazyul Haque at JN Medical College of AMU in Aligarh were terminated from their posts on Tuesday, a day after the CBI team visited the hospital and questioned the doctors and staff who attended the Hathras victim admitted here from September 14 to 28, before being shifted to Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi where she died the next day.

The AMU authorities have denied the allegations that removal of the two doctors had anything to do with the Hathras case.

They said the duo was engaged ‘on a temporary onemonth vacancy from September 9’ and could be removed without any prior notice.

Now the Resident Doctors Association (RDA) has written to the AMU vice chancellor, urging him to take immediate steps to withdraw the termination order.

“If the order is not revoked within the next 24 hours, the RDA would call a general body meeting of its members and decide its future course of action,” said

RDA president Mohammad Hamza Malik, alleging that action against the two doctors smacked of ‘vendetta politics’.

The bone of contention is the reported comments of these two doctors who contradicted the Uttar Pradesh police’s stand that the FSL report in the case found no traces of sperm, indicating that there was no rape. The doctors had reportedly claimed the FSL report had no evidentiary value as samples were collected 11 days after the crime.

However it was learnt that with RDA openly supporting the removed doctors, the AMU administration has agreed to allow these two doctors in case such request is made by incharge of casualty medical officers. In fact incharge of casualty medical officers at JN Medical College had already written to Vice Chancellor recommending continuation of services by these two doctors, sources revealed.

AMU AUTHORITIES HAVE DENIED THE ALLEGATIONS

THAT REMOVAL OF THE TWO DOCTORS HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE HATHRAS CASE