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." 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 join his place of posting immediately after being relieved. A single bench of Justice Rajeev Singh passed this order on May 26, allowing the petition of Dr Alok Pal. The petitioner challenged the affiliation order issued on July 15, 2025 and requested its cancellation. The petitioner stated that he was attached with the office of the Director General of Medical Education (DGME). Despite repeated requests to the principal of the medical college in Bahraich, he was not relieved from the position. Consequently, he approached the high court....