SC seeks opinion on terminated doctors at BSMMU

The Supreme Court yesterday sought opinions from Attorney General Mahbubey Alam on how to keep the qualified doctors among 111 who were appointed at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) as medical officers in 2006, in service.

The apex court asked him to submit the opinions to it by Sunday after discussing with the BSMMU authorities, Sharif Bhuiyan, a lawyer for the doctors, told The Daily Star, adding that the doctors were terminated.

The Appellate Division passed the order while hearing five petitions filed by them seeking review of its February 22 order rejecting their leave-to-appeal petition against a 2010 verdict of the High Court that had declared their recruitment process illegal for "anomalies".

However, the aggrieved doctors claimed that they were recruited on March 1, 2006 following an interim order of the HC, adding that they followed due process of recruitment and had their jobs regularised.