The Calcutta High Court dismissed a Public interest Litigation (PIL) filed alleging that the 5th respondent (the Hospital) is not accepting the “Swastha Sathi Card” and extending the benefit of the Group Health Insurance Scheme.
The petitioner is a practising advocate before the High Court .
“At the first place, we thought, the writ petition is a Public Interest Litigation, but on a closer scrutiny of all the documents appended to the stay petition”, the Court find that the petitioner is none other than a person who appeared in a habeas corpus petition in respect of a party in which the case one patient was admitted in the said Hospital and there appeared to the Court to have been certain issues and the petitioner had issued notice to the Hospital, a reply notice has also been sent by the Hospital on 19.03.2024.
Thus, the Division Bench of Chief Justice T. S. Sivagnanam and Justice Hiranmay Bhattacharyya is of the considered view that this writ petition cannot be treated as a Public Interest Litigation at the behest of the petitioner.
“However, it will be open to any aggrieved person to approach the authority, if they have any grievance against the 5th respondent”, the Court directed.