Lucknow, May 31 -- The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court has expressed surprise over the attachment of the faculty members teaching in state medical colleges to state government offices.

The court said, "It is very surprising that the faculty of medical colleges are being attached in the offices of the state government, leaving the medical students as well as the patients to suffer in the respective medical colleges."

With this important observation, the court quashed the attachment order of Dr Alok Pal, an associate professor of an autonomous state medical college in Bahraich. The court directed the state government and respondent departmental officers to relieve the doctor immediately. It also directed the petitioner doctor to...