Bombay HC questions Maharashtra’s lack of prison doctors
The Hindu
‘We are not asking you to increase the sanctioned strength, at least fill the sanctioned posts’
The Bombay High Court on Wednesday questioned the Maharashtra government on the lack of doctors across prisons in the State and said, “We are not asking you to increase the sanctioned strength, at least fill the sanctioned posts.” A Division Bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice G.S. Kulkarni was informed that for 47 prisons across Maharashtra, there are only 32 doctors, of which two doctors held the MBBS degree, and of the sanctioned 175 posts for the medical branch, 112 posts had been filled while 63 posts were still vacant.More Related News