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PoWs, Bitta urges Pak
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Musharraf’s presidency
challenged in SC Crew of
sinking Vietnamese ship rescued Naga Cong leaders meet Advani UTI fiasco: CPI asks Sinha to quit Cabinet
discusses arrest of ministers Maran, Baalu assaulted police: Jaya Omar sent as PM’s
emissary to Libya SC’s ruling on dying declaration Prabhakar’s remand extended to July 21 Ball in Centre’s
court: Enron, Maharashtra Trial run
of India-B’desh train service today Panel too holds doctor
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Pervez coming with 19-member team New Delhi, July 10 A spokesman of the Ministry of External Affairs Nirupama Rao said the Pakistani side had conveyed the list of official delegation. In a communication to the Ministry of External Affairs, Islamabad has communicated the names of the 19-member delegation which has Pakistan Foreign Minister Abdul Sattar in it, the spokesperson said. In addition to it, there would be security personnel and others, she said. Asked if the list also had the name of Pakistani Minister of Commerce, Mrs Rao declined to comment saying that she do not have further details. Mrs Rao did not say whether the Pakistani President would be accompanied by a business delegation. Meanwhile, reports from Islamabad said that General Musharraf would be leading a 24-member delegation. Besides Mr Sattar, other members of the delegation include Foreign Secretary Inamul Haq and General Musharraf’s spokesman Major General Rashid Qureshi. Asked if Mr Sattar was coming to New Delhi before the summit, the spokesperson replied in negative. To a question what would be the nationality of Kashmiris from the Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) in their passports once they visit Jammu and Kashmir upon the opening of checkpost at the international border and Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir, Mrs Rao avoided a direct reply saying “they will be carrying normal identification and travel documents”. The question on what kind of passports was in reference to the Parliament resolution of February 22, 1994, which declares entire Jammu and Kashmir to be an integral part of India. Whether India was not converting LoC into an international border, Mrs Rao said “we are not conferring on LoC any other status but which exists at present. We are just establishing
administrative convenience for the people of both sides”. In response to another question, she said there was no limit on agenda and it was for the two leaders to decide on the agenda. Meanwhile, it is learnt that General Musharraf would have a close door meeting with six members of the All-Party Hurriyat Conference executive on July 14 at the Tilak Marg residence of Pakistan High Commissioner Ashraf Jehangir Qazi. Mr Sattar would also be present at the meeting. Apart from JKLF member Yasin Malik who is away to London, all other six member of the Hurriyat Executive would attend the close door meeting. When confronted with the news of meeting between the Hurriayt leaders and the Pakistani President, the official spokesperson reiterated India’s stand. |
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USA ‘setting agenda’ for summit New Delhi, July 10 Even while the Left parties extended their support to Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee’s invitation to Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf for summit talks in Agra at yesterday’s all party meeting, the Left parties along with the main opposition party failed to get enlightened over the agenda of the talks between India and Pakistan. Talking to The Tribune, CPI leader D. Raja said “we apprehend that Washington was pulling the strings from behind forcing India and Pakistan to talks on the US agenda”. Mr Raja said the CPI would like to know from the Prime Minister about the agenda for talks. Participating in a seminar “India-Pakistan: people, policies and government”, organised by the Forum of Public Affairs, CPM Politburou member Sitaram Yechuri today said that the government did not present any structured agenda at the all-party meeting as maximum time of the three-hour-long meeting was taken by the issue whether the parties should attend the Pakistan High Commission’s much publicised tea party, in which Hurriyat leaders were invited, or not. Mr Yechuri said it appeared that the agenda for talks was being set by the USA which continued to have strategic interest in Jammu and Kashmir. Referring to former US President Bill Clinton’s recent revelation that he had made former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif withdraw Pakistani troops to their side of Line of Control during the Kargil conflict for which he (Sharif) had to pay a heavy price, Mr Yechuri said it was an important information to us as till then we believed Vajpayee government’s claim that the Indian troops had forced Pakistani armies to withdraw. The government has not yet denied Mr Clinton’s claim, Mr Yechuri pointed out. Even inviting General Musharraf for talks and terminating ceasefire was incomprehensible to us as till then the Vajpayee government was maintaining that India would not to talk to Pakistan as it would mean giving legitimacy to a military government, the CPM leader said. The government officially told us further that until Pakistan ceased its support to militant organisation and shunned cross-border terrorism we would not talk to Islamabad, Mr Yechuri said. Sudden abandonment of the officially stated position and inviting General Musharraf was something which we find difficult to swallow, the CPM leader said adding that the government had no satisfactory answers to our queries which gives rise to our apprehension that some other force was dictating the policy towards Pakistan. Earlier, former Indian Youth Congress President Manish Tewari said one had to be very careful while talking to Pakistan as the historic Lahore bus trip had proved. Mr Tewari said the best way to deal with Pakistan was to surmount the wave of emotions that usually engulf such events and to get out of the long-lost brother syndrome. It would be better to talk to Pakistan in a pragmatic and hard nose manner laying down our priorities and national obejctives in a straightforward manner, Mr Tewari said adding that if this was not adhered to then “I am afraid this summit would meet the same fate as the bus to Lahore that lies overturned in Kargil and Kandahar”. Echoing the same sentiments, Congress leader Salman Khurshid accused the government of going to talks without any homework saying that this was the reason that this government has no agenda for the talks for the Agra summit. Mr Khurshid, who was the Minister of State for External Affairs in the Narasimha Rao government, said while the government was saying that the Kashmir issue would be discussed at the summit but there seems to be no Kashmir policy of this government. |
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Pak urged to discourage militancy New Delhi, July 10 The 10 groups which deliberated on themes ranging from security issues to economics and civic and gender issues during the two-day conference here, recommended setting up a SARRC parliament in Karachi, free trade between India and Pakistan, easing visa regulations and keeping politics out of sport. Prof M.L. Sondhi, chairperson of the ICSSR, announced that on the directions of Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, ICSSR Member-Secretary Bhaskar Chaterjee would proceed to Islamabad to put in place an institutional mechanism that would build upon the exchanges between the intellectuals in New Delhi. The recommendations of the conference are likely to be presented to both Mr Vajpayee and Mr Musharraf before the Agra summit. The group on security issues, whose recommendations have special relevance in view of the past bitterness between India and Pakistan, has suggested that India and Pakistan should set up a Joint Working Group on issues related to cross-border terrorism. It said that both countries should review the 1989 agreement on Siachen and take measures for greater interaction with people specially in the areas across LoC. The group also emphasised the right of Kashmiri Pandits to return to the valley. |
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I was not consulted: Gowda New Delhi, July 10 “The talks between Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf might not solve the contentious issues between the two countries. However, it would reduce tensions,” Mr Gowda said here today. Stating that the invitation to General Musharraf as a “good move”, the former Prime Minister appeared to be disenchanted with Mr Vajpayee as he had not been consulted on such an important issue. “I have read from media report that Mr Vajpayee had called a meeting with the former Prime Minister and sought their views. I have not received any such invitation,” Mr Gowda told The Tribune. Asked whether the talks were being held under the US pressure, Mr Gowda said, “This is not the right time to comment on such issues. We have our own views on the declaration of unilateral ceasefire, its withdrawal, and other recent decisions of the government.” Mr Gowda, also the president of the Janata Dal (secular), which concluded its two-day national executive today, in its resolution on the Indo-Pak talks said “the process will inevitably be a continuing one and in assessing the outcome of the talks, it is advisable to eschew
over optimism as well as undue pessimism.” On the Manipur crisis, the resolution said “the Union Government has shown a total lack of foresight and broad perspective in handling the issue of extending the ceasefire to Manipur. It has not only provoked the people of Manipur but has led to the destabilisation of the democratic structure.” Describing the political developments in Tamil Nadu as a battle of revenge between the two major political formations, the Janata Dal (secular) resolution came down heavily on the Centre in handling the crisis. |
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Release PoWs, Bitta urges Pak New Delhi, July 10 Activist of the AIATF today, held a demonstration in front of the Pakistani Embassy here demanding that President Pervez Musharraf should bring along with him all PoWs languishing in Pakistan jail. The demonstrators included the family members of the PoWs who have been eagerly waiting for the return of their loved ones. “It would be a great gesture on your (Musharraf) part if the PoWs were brought along with your delegation to India,” Mr Bitta said, adding that some of the issue hang like iron curtain between the cordial relations of the two countries. He also demanded that the handover of the terrorists
responsible for hijacking the Indian Airlines plane from Nepal in December last so that they could be tried in accordance with the Indian laws. The AIATF also demanded that the dreaded terrorists of Punjan and Kashmir who are holed up in Pakistan should be apprehended and handed over to the Indian Government. |
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Pak people pin hopes on summit New Delhi, July 10 Social scientists, journalists,
academicians and businessmen from Pakistan, who are here to attend ICSSR-organised conference, may have differing perception about the reasons for bitterness in the Indo-Pakistan relations but all of them look to the Vajpayee-Musharraf summit as a historical opportunity to make amends and chart a new course for future. Dr Rifaat Hussain, Chairman, Defence and Strategic Studies, Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad, feels that the summit would mean a reconnection with the Lahore Declaration. “However, lot of groundwork is being done for this summit unlike Lahore,” he adds. Describing General Musharraf as one of the most powerful persons in the history of Pakistan, Dr Hussain says that the General had himself talked about the possibility of history being created. Maintaining that Pakistan’s December 2, 2000 announcement about LoC restraint went a long way in addressing Indian apprehensions about talking to Pakistan, Dr Hussain denied that things were moving under international pressure. Emphasising that the Pakistan President had the backing of major constituents home, he says that factions of the PPP and Nawaz Sharief’s Muslim League had also supported his moves to engage with India. Asserting that there was far more at stake than the summit being put in jeopardy over the issue of Hurriyat’s proposed meeting with General Musharraf, Professor Mohammed Wasim, Chairman, International Relations of the Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad, says that India and Pakistan should at least announce confidence-building measures after the summit. “It is important to keep talking. Kashmir can wait but talking
cannot,” he emphasises. The Professor says that instability in South Asia had affected growth of democracy in Pakistan. Lauding India’s “peace-offensive”(scholarships, fellowships), he said that Pakistan government was also taking some reciprocal measures. Mr Hamid
Haroon, Publisher and Editor of the Dawn, says that Kashmir continued to be the major sore point in Indo-Pakistan relations, he says that the issue had to be addressed squarely but without bitterness of the past. “Absence of an agreement on the issue will make life difficult both for India and Pakistan,” he says. Referring to the problems plaguing Pakistan economy, Mr Fahim Zaman Khan, a Karachi-based columnist, says that both India and Pakistan should have vested interest in normalising relations. “For a start, the two countries can lose travel restrictions,
de-militiarise Siachen, promote greater people-to-people exchange and reduce hostilities,” he suggests. |
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Pervez escapes unhurt in mishap
New Delhi, July 10 The accident occurred yesterday when a private car smashed into the car escorting the VVIP convoy near the entrance gate of the Islamabad International Airport, the paper reported quoting the police sources. As a result, the driver of the escorting car and General Musharraf’s gunman sustained injuries and their car was damaged.
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Musharraf’s presidency
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Islamabad, July 10 Court officials said that the petition, filed by an advocate from Rawalpindi challenging the “self-induction” of Gen Pervez Musharraf as President and removal of the elected President Rafiq Tarar and dissolution of the National Assembly, was received yesterday and could be listed for hearing during the course of the week. General Musharraf, in a surprise move on June 20, took over as President and the decision was condemned by major political parties as unconstitutional and illegal. The Lahore High Court, however, had rejected a petition challenging the self-appointment. The new petition has evoked curiosity here as Supreme Court Chief Justice Irshad Hassan Khan had lent credibility to the appointment by administering oath of office to General Musharraf. He was widely criticised by the political parties and former judges for this action.
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Crew of sinking Vietnamese ship rescued Kolkata, July 10 Official sources said personnel of the Coast Guard, Dredging Corporation of India and Kolkata Port Trust were engaged in the operation to rescue the crew of the ship, sinking since last night. Captain of “Lucnan” Binh Le Quoc said all 30 crew members of the ship, owned by the Vietnamese Oceanic Shipping Company, were safe. The ship, heading for Haldia Port and carrying 13,000 tonnes of fertilisers from China, sunk more than 10 feet at the confluence of the Hooghly and the Bay of Bengal after water rushed through the hold. The crew tried to pump out the water but the leak could not be plugged, the sources added.
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Naga Cong leaders meet Advani New Delhi, July 10 The delegation, led by senior Nagaland Minister P. Enyei Konyak, expressed their resentment against the review of the ceasefire extension beyond Nagaland. According to sources, they drew the attention of the Home Minister to Clause 13 of the 16-point agreement reached between the Naga People’s Council and the Centre in 1960, which states that those Nagas living in Naga inhabited areas should be allowed to join Nagaland if they so desire and pointed out that this clause had not been fulfilled. They emphasised that the extension of ceasefire beyond Nagaland was a step forward in implementing the clause and thus the ceasefire extension should not be reviewed or revoked. The other members of the delegation were K V Pusa, Toeheho Yepthomi, H Chuba Chang, Naipa Ndang, I Imkong, Zachilhu Vadeo (all ministers), C Apok Jamir, K Asungba Sangdam (all MPs), V C Kanito, MLA, Shilo Sangtam, NPCC general secretary and Imkong L Imchen, NPCC vice-president. Earlier, the delegation also met senior AICC members and handed over the resolution for Congress President Sonia Gandhi. They had yesterday met Minister of State for Home I D Swami and are planning to meet Mr
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on Naga truce New Delhi, July 10 “It is clear that the present government has no perception, comprehension or understanding of the sensitivity of people of Manipur, Assam and Nagaland. This mess has been created by an inconsistent flip-flop approach of the Union Government,” Congress spokesman Anand Sharma told newspersons here. |
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UTI fiasco: CPI asks Sinha to quit New Delhi, July 10 “The Finance Minister should quit, criminal proceedings be started against the guilty, the government should take immediate steps to restructure and rehabilitate this institution and the interest of the small investors be
effetely protected,” the CPI demanded in a statement. Mr Sinha has ruled out any move to step down from office. The UTI, having mobilised funds from lower middle class and middle class population have never formulated a transparent investment policy. What it did was to favour large industrial houses with private placement, incurring huge losses. It even invested heavily in the secondary market to rescue the sensex on the instructions of the Finance Ministry, ignoring the economic fundamentals, the CPI said. The Union Finance Ministry’s move to institute a probe into the UTI fiasco was today described by the CPI as a “shrewd attempt to cover up the entire fiasco.” “The inquiry into the UTI fiasco is a shrewd attempt to cover up the entire fiasco,” the CPI said. The Left party asked “how can the Finance Ministry plead ignorance when a representative of the RBI is on the board? The issue was raised in Parliament earlier, even the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Security Scam in 1992-93 referred to the condition prevaling in UTI.” The party alleged that Mr Sinha was aware of the situation. |
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Cabinet discusses arrest of ministers New Delhi, July 10 The issued was raised by Mr Maran and Mr Baalu at the meeting. They felt their arrests by the Jayalalitha government should be seen in a wider context and in a larger perspective. According to a minister, it was indicated that the Union Home Ministry and the Law Ministry would sit together to formulate a convention which would ensure that proper procedures are followed to establish any guilt before arrests of ministers are made. This would not mean immunity but ensure that the Central Ministers are treated with respect, he added. During the discussion on Tamil, Nadu, which lasted more than 45 minutes, various questions were raised regarding the state government’s failure to provide constitutional guarantee to an elected representative. Several members took exception to the Tamil Nadu Government’s announcement to set up a one-man enquiry commission to look into the police excesses committed during the arrest of DMK chief M. Karunanidhi. The Prime Minister, Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee, asked the two ministers from Tamil Nadu to have a meeting with their counterparts in the Ministries of Home and Law and Justice as part of the exercise to ensure that such incidents don’t occur in the future. |
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Maran, Baalu assaulted police: Jaya Chennai, July 10 In a ten-page statement, she said the arrest of Mr Karunanidhi was in accordance with the Indian Police Act 1861, which stipulated that a political leader of mass following should be arrested only late in the night to avoid any law and order problem. She noted that Mr Karunanidhi and his wife Rajathi Ammal had cooperated well when the police went to their residence on June 30 to effect the arrest and the problem arose only after Mr Maran arrived at the scene. The police officials had entered Mr Karunanidhi’s bedroom only after being invited by him, she said and dismissed as “pure lie,’’ the allegation that they had barged into his room. The statement, giving the official version of the incidents, comes within a week after the Centre had issued a warning to the state government and directing it to take action against the police personnel for the “high-handedness’’ during the arrest of Mr Karunanidhi and later the Union Ministers. The Centre had also wanted a compliance report. The Jayalalithaa government responded quickly by appointing the Justice Raman commission of inquiry to probe whether there was any excess while effecting the arrest and also whether the ministers had assaulted public servants while discharging their duties. Mr Karunanidhi, earlier, had announced that his party would boycott the commission. The Chief Minister’s statement was, however, silent on the much quoted Supreme Court directive on the procedures to be followed while effecting an arrest.
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emissary to Libya New Delhi, July 10 Sources said Mr Abdullah was carrying a letter from Mr Vajpayee addressed to the Libyan President, Mr M. Gaddafi. The letter was meant to explain India’s position on Kashmir since the matter had come up for discussions during the recent meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) in Mali of which Libya was also a member. These sources said Mr Omar Abdullah, son of the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Mr Farooq Abdullah, was specially chosen for the mission because of his first hand knowledge of Kashmir. Former Chairman of the All-Party Hurriyat Conference (APHC), Mirwaiz Omar Farooq had also attended the conference. He returned to the Capital yesterday. Sources said the decision to send Mr Omar Abdullah to Libya was taken as Libya had become quite vocal over the Kashmir issue recently. The letter was meant to place things in the proper perspective. |
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SC’s ruling on dying declaration New Delhi, July 10 “On the other hand, if every individual dying declaration consisting in a plurality is found to be infirm, the court would not be persuaded to act thereon merely because the dying declarations are more than one and apparently consistent,” the court said while dismissing an appeal by the mother of a deceased dowry victim demanding the conviction of her husband his mother and sister on the singular evidence of dying declarations against them. The appellant, Mrs Laxmi, had prayed for the reversal of a Delhi High Court judgement acquitting all three respondents of the charges under Sections 302/34 of the Indian Penal Code because of infirmity in the dying declarations as the deceased was not in a fit condition to depose to the relevant persons including investigating and police officers. Reiterating the law in Kundala Bala Subrahmanyam case (1993), a division bench of the court comprising Mr Justice R C Lahoti and Mr Justice Doraiswamy Raju said, “The dying declaration, is relevant and admissible in evidence, `provided it has been made by the deceased while in a fit mental condition’”. Delivering the judgement, Mr Justice Lahoti postulated: “A court of facts is not excluded from acting upon an uncorroborated dying declaration for finding conviction. A dying declaration, as a piece of evidence, stands on the same footing as any other piece of evidence.” “It has to be judged and appreciated in the light of the surrounding circumstances and its weight determined by reference to the principles governing the weighing of evidence. It is, as if the maker of the dying declaration was present in the court, making a statement, stating the facts contained in the declaration, with the difference that the declaration is not a statement on oath and the maker thereof cannot be subjected to cross-examination,” the judge added. Upholding the High Court judgement, the judges further stated, “if, in a given case, a particular dying declaration suffers from any infirmities, either of its own or as disclosed by other evidence adduced in the case or circumstances coming to its notice, the court may, as a rule of prudence, look for corroboration and if the infirmities conscience of the court, the same be refused to be accepted as forming a safe basis for conviction.” The deceased, Janak Kumari (25), died an unnatural death due to extensive burns in March 1982. Married in 1976, she had a five-year-old child at the time of the incident. The couple had an estranged relationship. Janaki is reported to have told a neighbour, witness in the case, that she would teach her husband and in-laws a lesson by committing suicide. This possibility was accepted by the judges. |
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Prabhakar’s remand extended to July 21 Dehra Dun, July 10 Nainital Judicial Magistrate Devraj Prasad Singh, who extended the custody, also directed the Chief Medical Officer to conduct a medical examination of Prabhakar, who is undergoing treatment at a hospital. The Chief Medical Officer has been asked to submit his report tomorrow. Prabhakar had been remanded in judicial custody on July 2 for six days in one of the three cases against him. Accompanied by his wife Sandhya, the former cricketer was brought to the court yesterday in an ambulance. Large crowds could be seen in and around the court to have a look at him. But Prabhakar did not come out of the ambulance. His counsel K.C. Upreti made a plea to exempt Prabhakar from being presented in the court which was allowed by the magistrate. Prabhakar had been admitted to a nursing home in Haldwani after he had complained of pain in his fingers and legs following his arrest in Delhi on July 2 for his suspected involvement in forgery at the Apace India Chit Fund, a private non-banking financial company. He was arrested by the Haldwani police after a local court issued non-bailable warrants against him.
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Ball in Centre’s court: Enron, Maharashtra
Mumbai, July 10 “Our tariff is globally competitive and once the use of liquefied natural gas (LNG) begins, it will be lower”, US energy major’s Chairman Kenneth Lay told reporters here tonight. Mr Lay said he had a constructive meeting with Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh and that it “was in common interests for both the parties to solve the issue amicably”.
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Trial run
of India-B’desh train service today Kolkata, July 10 Eastern Railway sources said the fare structure, frequency of service and related matters would be decided after the successful trial run. The trial run by the Bangladesh Railways would take place between Bangabandhu and Sealdah in Kolkata via Darsana in Bangladesh and Gede in India. The trains would cover a distance of about 180 km to reach their destinations in the countries. Subsequently, the service would be extended to Kamalpur near Dhaka after the public sector Indian Railway Construction Company (IRCON) completed the 100-km-long broad gauge railway line from the Bangabandhu station to Kamalpur on the outskirts of the country’s capital town.
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Panel too holds doctor
guilty Sriganganagar, July 10 Tragically, Deepika (10) died the day the judgement was delivered at Jaipur a few days ago. The shocked parents are today trying to come to grips with the incident. They are planning to take “the negligent doctor to the court so that he would not be able to play with the life of any more patients. The hands which were supposed to save her life resulted in her death,” says her distraught father, Mr Lajpat Rai. According to Mr Rai, a teacher at Government Senior Secondary School, Sribijaynagar, near here, Deepika was a few days old when she fell down. He took her to the residence of Dr Charanjeet Sharma, Medical Officer, Seth Kesar Chand Hospital. The doctor changed Rs 25 as fees and asked him to bring back the child to the hospital the next day. He examined her the next day and “without conducting any further tests injected her thrice with DTP polio.” Following this Deepika developed high fever and was again taken to the doctor at his residence where he prescribed 60 mg of gardinal in tablet form to be administerd to the child for a month. But the condition of Deepika deteriorated. She started having fits, and was again taken to the doctor who referred her to Dr Shyam Sunder Tantia at Sriganganagar. Dr Tantia conducted an EEG test and concluded that “she was suffering from epilepsy” and further advised him that “the treatment, gardinal, should be continued for at least five years.” Mr Rai complied with the instructions of the doctor but the condition of Deepika continued to deteriorate. As she grew older she started showing signs of being a mental patient. On the advice of family members and friends, he moved an application against the doctors in the District Consumer Forum which ruled in his favour and awarded damages of Rs 25, 000 each against Dr Tantia and Dr Sharma. He challenged the order in the state commission which held that while Dr Tantia had conducted the EEG and was of the impression that the fits could be that of epilepsy, there was no evidence to show that the doctor advised him to keep his daughter on gardinal. The commission held that the consultant physician of the child was Dr Charanjeet Sharma who had prescribed these tablets for Deepika on January 23, 1992. Dr Tantia carried out the necessary tests on March 12 , 1991. But, there was sufficient evidence against Dr Sharma since he took the fees at his home for carrying out an examination at the hospital the next day. He also prescribed a strong dose of 60 mg of gardinal for Deepika, a mere infant at that time. After administering the polio vaccination, the child could have developed fever in normal course but after that he, as an experienced medical consultant, should have exhibited more professional skill and care in the treatment of the child. The members were also unanimous that “without conducting further tests the doctor prescribed the medication for a mere infant. Thus, he was negligent in rendering professional services to the child.” His appeal was dismissed with costs of Rs 1, 000. |
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