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Amid a stand-off betwixt the doctors and the Haryana Police implicit an alleged battle by a constabulary Inspector connected an on-duty doc successful Karnal 2 days ago, the Haryana Civil Medical Services Association (HCMSA) connected Friday (March 6, 2026) gave a telephone for one-day suspension of OPD services crossed the State.
The relation has demanded registration of a lawsuit against Station House Officer, Gharaunda, Inspector Deepak, on with the different constabulary unit progressive successful the alleged assault, their contiguous apprehension and a time-bound probe into the matter.
The Indian Medical Association, Haryana, too, has supported the doctors’ assemblage and demanded an FIR nether the Haryana Medicare Service Persons and Medicare Service Institutions (Prevention of Violence and Damage to Property), Act, 2009.
Seeking involution by Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini, the IMA, Haryana, successful a missive said that “it is disturbing erstwhile the unit designed for extortion of the law-abiding citizens becomes a root of intimidation and brutality, and that excessively of an on-duty authorities doctor”. Describing the constabulary officer’s behaviour arsenic “high-handed”, the IMA said it should not beryllium tolerated, and the culprit beryllium fixed an “exemplary” punishment.
In a closed-circuit tv footage of the incident, the constabulary serviceman is seen assaulting the doc with different antheral successful the framework trying to intervene.
The constabulary serviceman allegedly caught clasp of the victim, Prashant Chauhan, by his collar, slapped him and forcibly pushed him into a constabulary gypsy portion helium was performing authoritative authorities work astatine the hospital, arsenic per the mentation of the territory portion of the HCMSA. The incidental reportedly occurred wrong the authorities infirmary premises during work hours. Mr. Chauhan was past taken to the constabulary station, illegally detained for an hr and compelled to constitute an apology. He was released pursuing an involution from elder administrative officials.
The alleged incidental took spot pursuing a verbal spat betwixt the doc and the constabulary serviceman implicit telephone aft the erstwhile called up the section constabulary presumption seeking deployment of a squad astatine the authorities infirmary to support instrumentality and bid successful presumption of surge successful fig of patients connected the juncture of Holi.
The repeated calls and messages to Karnal DC Uttam Singh and SP Narendra Bijarniya did not elicit immoderate response.
