India, May 25 -- Former deputy mayor Rajesh Sharma has filed a contempt petition in the Bombay High Court alleging "wilful and deliberate disobedience" of its April 2025 order directing the Employees' State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) and the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences and Research (PGIMSR) to restart the ESIC Model hospital in Andheri by January this year.

While the hospital was shut down in 2018 after a major fire, Sharma alleged in the the public interest litigation (PIL) filed through advocates Rahul Kamerkar and Aparajita R Jha that despite the passage of several years, the ESIC had failed to take effective steps to restore the functioning of the hospital, resulting in grave hardship to the insured persons and the ...