Case Law Details
1. Additional affidavit in reply on behalf of Respondent No.1 is filed. Meanwhile, an intervention application on behalf of the Association of Medical Consultants is placed before this Court in order to assist the Court to find ways and means to resolve the existing problem.
2. Learned Advocate General submits that subsequent to the incident in question, the concerned authorities have had emergent meetings and have resolved to deploy 1100 additional armed forces from the Maharashtra State Security Corporation who have all the capabilities of maintaining law and order in exigencies like normal police personnel. According to him, the first lot of 500 such security personnel would be deployed with effect from 5 April 2017 so far as city of Mumbai and the balance of them would be deployed by 30 April 2017.
3. Meanwhile, the grievance of the petitioner is that in spite of norms that not more than two attendants of a patient will be allowed to enter the hospital through the main gate itself has to be strictly implemented. This would include visitors visiting the patients during a particular visiting hours of the hospital. In other words, at any point of time, there may not be more than two attendants of a patient who can have entry in the hospital premises.
4. It is needless to say that the existing guards or the additional guards to be deployed would have to discharge their
duties strictly adhering to the instructions given to them, failing which the concerned management has to inform the concerned authority who is responsible to regulate the duties of the guards.
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