Centre to re-examine Venugopal's sacking

(New Delhi):The Centre has told the High Court that it will now re-look at the decision to sack AIIMS Director P Venugopal. The Centre has also withdrawn the petition, which it had filed on Monday, challenging the High Court's decision to put a stay on the removal of Venugopal. The decision to withdraw the appeal was taken after the bench pulled up the center for filing it. Thereafter, the government withdrew the appeal as the bench threatened to dismiss it. The Additional Solicitor General Gopal Subramainum told the court that the Centre plans to make its decision more democratic and transparent by circulating the charges leveled against Venugopal. He also said that the copies of the charges will be circulated not only to Venugopal but also to all governing body and faculty members of the premier institute. Meanwhile, five MPs – one each from the Congress, DMK PMK, RJD and Samajwadi Party – are planning to bring a calling attention motion in the Lok Sabha on what they term as the mismanagement of AIIMS by Dr Venugopal and his alleged discrimination against SC, ST and OBC doctors in AIIMS.