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The High Court of Karnataka has quashed the State government’s bid of transferring Keshav Abbayya, member of Hubballi-Dharwad East MLA Prasad Abbayya, to Karnataka Medical College and Research Institute (KMCRI), Hubballi, permanently from Gadag Institute of Medical Sciences (GIMS), Gadag, based connected a missive rewritten by his MLA-brother to Medical Education Minister Sharan Prakash Patil.
The tribunal besides quashed assignment of Dr. Keshav arsenic Head of the Department (HoD) of Dentistry arsenic good the elder list, which treated him arsenic the senior-most prof successful the dentistry department.
Justice M. Nagaprasanna passed the bid portion allowing a petition filed by Suneel G. Patil who was the senior-most module successful the KMCRI’s section of dentistry.
Blatant violation
“The imperishable placement of Dr. Keshav arsenic prof of KMCRI being successful blatant usurpation of binding statutory guidelines and indelibly tainted by governmental influence, cannot beryllium sustained successful law,” the tribunal said.
When the petitioner was statutorily entitled for promotion, “importing an outsider into the lone disposable station successful the department, efficaciously divested the petitioner of some his seniority, a statutory right, and his morganatic information of promotion, a cardinal right,” the tribunal observed, portion pointing retired that posting of transportation of Dr. Keshav to KMCRI is contrary to the norms of the institute arsenic good arsenic the National Medical Commission.
“The petitioner having already completed requisite qualifying work arsenic aboriginal arsenic astatine the clip erstwhile the caller station of Professor successful the Department of Dentistry was created, was afloat eligible and disposable for promotion. Yet, Dr. Keshav, whose fraternal narration with the sitting Member of the Legislative Assembly, representing Hubballi, appears to person been ushered into KMCRI done the channels of influence, notwithstanding the oppositions raised by those affected,” the tribunal observed. The tribunal besides noted that KMCRI is situated successful the constituency represented by Dr. Keshav’s MLA-brother.
The tribunal besides said that Dr. Keshav could not person been treated arsenic the senior-most prof successful the section arsenic his archetypal introduction into the KMCRI from GIMC was connected his voluntary petition citing mother’s ill-health arsenic the norms makes it wide that persons inducted to KCMRI from different institutes connected voluntary petition volition person to beryllium placed astatine the bottommost of the elder list.
Creation of post
Meanwhile, the tribunal besides recovered that authorities created a station of prof successful dentistry section to accommodate Dr. Keshav by asking the KMCRI to abolish a station of prof successful different section without the support from the NMC but, successful reality, nary station of prof was abolished.
The authorities though empowered to make oregon abolish post, indispensable workout specified authorization wrong the confines of fairness and non-arbitrariness arsenic Article 14 of the Constitution of India stands arsenic a law sentinel prohibiting whimsical actions oregon favouritism by the State, the tribunal pointed out.
The tribunal declared that the petitioner is entitled to each consequential benefits that would travel from the quashing of the bid of transportation of Dr. Keshav to KMCRI.
