Doctor takes selfie during surgery, government orders probe
Koraput (Odisha), Nov 2 : A probe was ordered into alleged clicking of a selfie by a doctor in an operation theatre (OT) of a government hospital in Odisha's Koraput district and circulation of the photo on social media, officials said on Friday.
A woman in labour was rushed to the District Headquarters Hospital (DHH) at Jeypore for delivery on Wednesday and a woman doctor clicked a selfie inside the OT with a group of doctors conducting operation in the background, they said.
It is illegal to carry mobile phone and clicking photos inside an OT. The circumstances in which the photo was taken and how it got circulated in social media are being inquired," said Lalit Mohan Rath, Chief District Medical Officer (CDMO) of Koraput.
After getting the inquiry report, necessary action will be taken, he said.
However, as the selfie photo started doing the rounds in social media, the district health administration drew flak from different quarters.
The OT is not a tourist spot to click photographs.
How could the doctors be so negligent. Strict action should be taken against those responsible for clicking and circulating the photo. Also, strict instruction should be issued to prevent recurrence of such incident, said Ajit Sahu, a Jeypore based activist.
When contacted, the woman doctor Sasmita Das said it was a collective decision of all the doctors present inside the OT to take the photo and to upload it in the DHH WhatsApp group as operation took place for the first time at the hospital's OT after it was shifted to its new building at Phulobado, situated on the outskirts of Jeypore on October 15.
We were excited as operation started in the new DHH building and the photo was uploaded in out DHH WhatsApp group.
I dont know how it got leaked to other groups and circulated in social media, she said. I had never thought that it will create problems and I am apologetic for it, she said.
It may be recalled that after the sub-divisional hospital of Jeypore was upgraded to a DHH on August 22, 2017, the DHH was shifted to Jeypore from Koraput on October 15 and is functioning inside the premises of mother and child ward situated at Phulobado.
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Allahabad HC sets aside maintenance order in favour of earning wife, says she didn't tell truth
Prayagraj (PTI): The Allahabad High Court has set aside a lower court order mandating a man to pay maintenance to his estranged wife, observing that she earns her living and did not reveal the true salary in her affidavit.
Justice Madan Pal Singh also allowed a criminal revision petition filed by the man, Ankit Saha.
"A perusal of the impugned judgment indicates that in the affidavit filed before the trial court, the opposite party herself admitted that she is a post-graduate and a web designer by qualification. She is working as a senior sales coordinator in a company and getting a salary of Rs 34,000 per month," the court said in the December 3 order.
"But in her cross-examination, she has admitted that she was earning Rs 36,000 per month. Such an amount for a wife who has no other liability cannot be said to be meagre; whereas the man has the responsibility of maintaining his aged parents and other social obligations," it observed.
The high court observed that the woman was not entitled to get any maintenance from her husband "as she is an earning lady and able to maintain herself".
The man's counsel argued in court that the estranged wife did not reveal the whole truth in the affidavit.
"She claimed herself to be an illiterate and unemployed woman. When the document filed by the man was shown to her before the trial court, she admitted her income during cross-examination. Thus, it is clear that she did not come before the trial court with clean hands," the counsel submitted.
The court, in its order, said, "Cases of those litigants who have no regard for the truth and those who indulge in suppressing material facts need to be thrown out of the court."
It impugned the lower court's February 17 judgment and order, passed by the principal judge of a family court in Gautam Buddh Nagar and allowed the criminal revision petition filed by the man.
