Amid a stand-off between the doctors and the Haryana Police over an alleged assault by a police Inspector on an on-duty doctor in Karnal two days ago, the Haryana Civil Medical Services Association (HCMSA) on Friday (March 6, 2026) gave a call for one-day suspension of OPD services across the State.
The association has demanded registration of a case against Station House Officer, Gharaunda, Inspector Deepak, along with the other police personnel involved in the alleged assault, their immediate arrest and a time-bound probe into the matter.
The Indian Medical Association, Haryana, too, has supported the doctors’ body and demanded an FIR under the Haryana Medicare Service Persons and Medicare Service Institutions (Prevention of Violence and Damage to Property), Act, 2009.
Seeking intervention by Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini, the IMA, Haryana, in a letter said that “it is disturbing when the force designed for protection of the law-abiding citizens becomes a source of intimidation and brutality, and that too of an on-duty government doctor”. Describing the police officer’s behaviour as “high-handed”, the IMA said it should not be tolerated, and the culprit be given an “exemplary” punishment.
