“Don’t politicise.” Highlights from the Supreme Court’s second hearing of the Kolkata case.
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00:00ask them to first return to work. Once they return to work, then nobody is going to take
00:04any adverse action against the doctors. Don't use social media to make arguments.
00:13This is a request from everybody that people should not take advantage of the situation,
00:20normalcy should return. And we are in their hands now,
00:24responsibility is in their hands now. The investigation is going on. We are assessing
00:38the status reports which are being filed in the course of the investigation. I think now
00:43for the family, there is no question of normalcy because the family is deeply affected.
00:47But in so far as the community is concerned, including the community of doctors, we have to
00:51return back. And the statements made of the nature that we have placed before you.
01:05Nobody should make any statement. We have a statement of a sitting minister of the
01:10state of West Bengal saying that if anybody talks anything against our leader,
01:20fingers will be chopped off. Bullets will be fired. Bullets will be fired is what he said.
01:30What we would also expect, please don't politicize.
01:46The law will take its course and we are ensuring that the law does take its course after a quick
01:52and efficient investigation. We are also concerned about the welfare and safety of
01:57doctors for the future. We want to institutionalize this. We are not just going to lay down guidelines.
02:03We are going to pass an enforceable direction that the recommendations of the task force will
02:07be implemented by the state governments, by hospitals, under the authority of the union
02:13government. May I mention on behalf of the AIMS doctor residence, on account of their being
02:23participating in the agitation and the protest, now they are being victimized on one ground or
02:28the other, being marked absent. They were doing their emergency duties, but because they were
02:37participating in the… Are they at work? If they are not at work, they will be marked absent. How
02:42can we ask them to do something? Not allowing in the exams, in one way or the other. If a lenient
02:49will be taken. If they are on duty, they will not be marked absent. If they are not on duty,
02:54the law will have to follow its course. How can we tell the administration to take up,
03:00to write something which is not correct? With respect to the exams and all that,
03:04the lenient will be taken. Because of this reason, they are protesting or on strike.
03:10That's alright. Ask them all, ask them to first return to work. Once they return to work,
03:16nobody is going to take any adverse action against the doctors.
03:20Word from your Lordship will work a lot for them.
03:22Let them first come back to work and then if there is any difficulty, just talk to us in the
03:27court here. We will make sure that there is no adverse action against the doctors.
03:30The notice that they have been given is that since for 9 days you have been on the rally,
03:35so we are deducting your 9 days of casual leave.
03:39We will pass some general order.
03:40Yes.
03:43Lordship, the PMR talks about 151 MG of Simran. It is never in MG. It is in ML.
03:51Please, come on. This is the problem.
03:53We are at a very incipient stage, but don't confuse this.
03:57Don't use social media to make arguments in the court.
04:00I am grateful for that. I am grateful.
04:02We have specifically now the PMR before us and we know what that 151 refers to.
04:09Let's not use what we read on social media and then make legal arguments on that basis.