In a press statement issued here today, the association while condemning the suspension of two doctors Dr Nighat Shaheen and Dr Bilal Ahmad, threatened to go on strike if the order was not revoked forthwith.
Dr Nighat, who says that she had been called to give expert opinion in the case, was the first to publicly confirm gang-rape and murder of two Shopian women Asiya and Neelofar on May 30.
She along with Bilal were on Thursday placed under suspension by the government on the recommendations of the judicial commission probing the incident.
The suspension of Dr. Nighat, who was on the second team of experts called in from Pulwama for the autopsies, had sparked angry protests by the medical fraternity in the district, while the doctor herself said that she was being punished for speaking the truth.
Dr. Nighat came down heavily on the inquiry commission that had recommended action against her, saying that it did not even know whether she had gone to Shopian for the post mortem or for expert opinion.
“With God as my witness, I had said whatever I saw in Shopian. My conscience did not allow me to speak an untruth,” she said.
SDAK Secretary General, Dr Saleem Tak today accused authorities of victimizing the doctors.
“Commissioner Secretary Health was looking from coloured glasses at the problem and trying to victimize those doctors who have no political backing” Tak said.
He said that Dr. Nighat Shaheen and Dr. Bilal were part of first and second team to give Gynae opinion and examined the bodies of victims at Shopian”.
Appealing Chief Minister Omar Abdullah not to fall prey to the machinations of bureaucrats especially like those of Atal Dulu, SDAK said that heads should roll from top and action should be taken against top brass and not against those doctors who brought the truth to surface.
Meanwhile a government spokesman said that the government suspended the police officers and two doctors on the basis of recommendation of Justice Jan Commission.
In case Dr. Nighat has any grievance, she is at liberty to bring it to the notice of the Commission, he added.
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