The Delhi High Court on Tuesday sought to know if Indian-origin doctors, barred from practising by a foreign country, can be prohibited from treating patients in India. A bench of acting Chief Justice raised the query regarding an Indian-origin doctor barred from practising by a US court is now treating patients in Delhi NCR. According to reports, the doctor had pleaded guilty of sexual misconduct and was asked to surrender all US medical licences, leave the country and not practice medicine in any form within the United States or any other country.
The court noted that mechanisms governing medical practice in India were ill-equipped to detect such doctors to practice in India. It directed the member secretary of Delhi State Legal Services Authority to verify the name and address of this doctor, carry out an immediate probe and file a report within four days. Besides this, the court…
