MEDICAL COLLEGE "MISLEADS" HIGH COURT, FINED RUPEES TEN LAKH WITH THE DIRECTION TO DEPOSIT THE AMOUNT WITH PGIMER. (POOR PATIENTS WELFARE FUND) .

The Punjab and Haryana High Court in a decision taken has slapped a fine of rupee ten lakh on a medical college for misleading the court. A division bench comprising Chief Justice Sheel Nagu and justice Anil Kshetraphal has passed the orders on a plea filed by the Medical college and Hospital, Pathankot, earlier known as the Chintpurni Medical college and hospital pathankot. The college had contested a jan order by the Medical assessment &ratings board (MARB) that directed the transfer of students from the 2021-22and 2022-23 academic years to other institutions. The court found that the college had repeatedly and continuesly failed to meet with the required standard and the High Court was also of the view that it was not appropriate for the National Medical Commission to grant the college conditional permission to admit students in the academic years 2020-21and 2021-22sessions . As such the court upheld MATB's authority to order the mass transfer of students and dismissed the college's plea. Additionally, the court noted that the college had not disclosed previous court orders, Given the college's deliberate concealment of adverse judicial orders from 2012 to 2017 , the court imposed rupee ten lakh fine, directing that the amount be deposited with the PGIMER poor patients welfare funds.