Court fines doctors for poor handwriting

They must deposit the amount within three weeks or it would be deducted from their salaries.

Comprehending handwriting of doctors can be quite nerve-wracking. The Lucknow Bench of Allahabad High Court, in India's Uttar Pradesh, fined two doctors in two separate cases for their bad handwriting.
The doctors were fined Rs 5,000 in two separate criminal cases for ill-written medico-legal reports. The cases came up for hearing last week and the injury reports of the victims issued by hospitals were not readable due to the poor handwriting of the doctors who had issued them.
A Division Bench comprising Justices, Ajay Lamba and Sanjay Harkauli, summoned both doctors to read their handwriting on the medical reports and reprimanded them. Doctors - Dr P K Goel, serving in the Sitapur district hospital and Dr T P Jaiswal, who works at the Gonda hospital, were told that their poor handwriting obstructed court proceedings.
They were then asked to deposit Rs 5,000 each at the library of Oudh Bar Association within three weeks or the amount would be deducted from their salaries. The judges said, "The directions of the court and the circular issued by Director General, Medical and Health, Uttar Pradesh, have been ignored with impunity."
However, the Bench also observed that it would be impossible for the court to summon doctors in each and every case to read their handwriting on medical reports, as reported by New Indian Express.

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