SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
Dipankar Datta, Satish Chandra Sharma, JJ
Nigam Prakash Narain – Appellant
Versus
National Medical Commission – Respondent
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| 1. factual history regarding faculty declaration and subsequent disciplinary proceedings. (Para 2 , 3) |
| 2. dispute over the validity of declarations and adherence to natural justice. (Para 4 , 5 , 6) |
| 3. violation of natural justice by punishing for a charge not originally framed. (Para 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12) |
| 4. exercise of article 142 powers to modify disproportionate professional censure. (Para 13 , 14 , 15 , 16) |
DIPANKAR DATTA, J.
1. Leave granted.
THE APPEAL
2. The present appeal stems from a judgment and order dated 24th August 2023 passed by the High Court of Judicature at Patna, Digitally signed by in L.P.A. No. 1608 of 2017, whereby the Division Bench, in exercise of its intra-
Signature Not Verified JATINDER KAUR Date: 2026.05.06 Reason:
court appellate jurisdiction, allowed the appeal preferred by the Medical Council of India, MCI (since substituted by the National Medical Commission, NMC) and set aside the judgment and order dated 20th September 2017 passed by the Single Judge in C.W.J.C. No. 13547 of 2016, thereby restoring the order of penalty dated 21st July 2016 passed by the Ethics Committee of the MCI, Ethics Committee, which had directed remov
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