HC slams State for arbitrary action, says doctors deserve rightful pay

Upholding a single judge bench’s order of granting assistant professors their due pay scales in accordance with the Punjab Medical Education (Group-A) Service Rules of 2016, the Punjab and Haryana High Court recently held that doctors deserve respect and their rightful pay under the law.

Before dismissing an appeal filed by Assistant Professors, the HC Division bench of Justices Anupinder Singh Grewal and Lapita Banerji also slammed the State Government for its capricious and irrational action, The Tribune has reported.