India, July 19 -- In a major ruling, the Bombay High Court has held that a postgraduate diploma awarded by the College of Physicians and Surgeons (CPS), Mumbai, cannot by itself be treated as a disqualification for promotion to the post of Deputy Medical Officer of Health (Dy MOH).

In an order dated July 13, a division bench of Justices GS Kulkarni and Aarti Sathe directed the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) to convene a departmental promotion committee (DPC) within two weeks to consider the case of petitioner Dr Manisha Vinod Naik, 56, an assistant medical officer of health, PMC, along with other eligible candidates for promotion.

The court passed the order while allowing a writ petition filed by Dr Naik, who challenged the civic body...