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Published : Jul 17, 2018, 3:21 pm IST
Updated : Jul 17, 2018, 3:21 pm IST
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The Calcutta High Court today directed the release of original educational documents of two postgraduate medical students...

The Calcutta High Court today directed the release of original educational documents of two postgraduate medical students, whose papers were allegedly withheld by the West Bengal government's Health Department. The petitioners, who moved two different benches of the high court, alleged that despite agreeing to pay the requisite bond amount of Rs 10 lakh and Rs 20 lakh respectively, they were denied of their original documents. Petitioner Debashish Bhattacharya, who studied at the Bankura Sammilani Medical College, the moved the court claiming that the Health Department 

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not releasing his original documents which he needed for pursuing higher studies. A division bench, comprising Chief Justice J Bhattacharya and Justice A Banerjee, directed that the state health secretary must ensure the release of all original documents upon payment of Rs 10 lakh as per the bond agreement of July 31, 2013. The court directed the principal of the college to produce the documents before the court, which would then be handed over to the petitioner. In another petition, 

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Assam resident Anurag Saha moved the court of Justice Arindam Sinha, seeking a release of his documents related to his educational qualifications. His counsel Kallol Bose, who also represented Debasish Bhattacharya in the other bench, submitted that he has been invited to join a hospital as a child specialist on July 19, but the state Health Department was refusing to hand over his documents. This was despite his agreeing to pay the bond amount of Rs 20 lakh as per agreement of June 10, 2014. Justice Arindam Sinha directed the Health Department to release and hand over Saha's papers, a

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who was attached to the BC Roy Child Hospital here, by July 18 on payment of the amount? The state Health Department had in 2013 introduced a bond for postgraduate students in its medical colleges making one-year rural health service mandatory for them, which they could opt out upon payment of Rs 10 lakh. In 2014, the Health Department increased the time period for compulsory rural health service from one year to three years. The government order had said that the medical students are to pay Rs 30 lakh, with a break up of Rs 10 lakh per year, if they choose to opt out of the three-year compulsory service in the rural hospitals in the state.

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