{"id":7911,"date":"2010-12-22T20:35:31","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T15:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=7911"},"modified":"2010-12-22T20:35:31","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T15:05:31","slug":"gujarat-court-rejects-plea-against-ketan-desai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/gujarat-court-rejects-plea-against-ketan-desai","title":{"rendered":"Gujarat court rejects plea against Ketan Desai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Ketan-Desai.bmp\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7912\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/gujarat-court-rejects-plea-against-ketan-desai\/ketan-desai-2\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2010\/12\/Ketan-Desai.bmp\" data-orig-size=\"\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"[]\" data-image-title=\"Ketan Desai\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2010\/12\/Ketan-Desai.bmp\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2010\/12\/Ketan-Desai.bmp\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7912\" title=\"Ketan Desai\" src=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Ketan-Desai.bmp\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>The Gujarat High Court Wednesday rejected a public interest litigation (PIL) against the election of tainted former Medical Council of India (MCI) chief Ketan Desai to the Gujarat University senate.The court also imposed a cost of Rs.10,000 on the petitioner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am deeply shocked that the court dismissed our PIL that challenged the election of Desai,\u201d said Kunal Saha who heads the People for Better Treatment (PBT), a doctors\u2019 group which filed the petition.<\/p>\n<p>The PIL was filed against the election of Desai to the senate against a seat reserved for a medical graduate.<\/p>\n<p>The group in its petition said that Desai was arrested on graft charges and his medical degree was suspended by the MCI.<\/p>\n<p>Desai was arrested in April this year for allegedly taking Rs.2 crore bribe from a Punjab-based medical college. The MCI suspended his medical licence in October.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe court imposed a penalty of Rs.10,000 on the ground that there was no public interest involved in the petition even without letting my attorney argue,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe court said that I cannot file the PIL as I am a non-resident Indian (NRI). The petition was filed by the PBT and similar petitions from us have earlier been heard by the Supreme Court,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Saha added that the group would now approach the apex court.<\/p>\n<p>The high court earlier said that Desai was an accused in a case but not proved guilty so far. The court said the law provided for a person guilty of scandalous behaviour to be suspended.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShow us any provision that bars a medical graduate from contesting a senate election,\u201d asked the court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gujarat High Court Wednesday rejected a public interest litigation (PIL) against the election of tainted former Medical Council of India (MCI) chief Ketan Desai to the Gujarat University senate.The court also imposed a cost of Rs.10,000 on the petitioner. \u201cI am deeply shocked that the court dismissed our PIL that challenged the election of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[287],"class_list":["post-7911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-law-news","tag-ketan-desai"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Gujarat court rejects plea against Ketan Desai  - Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; High Court Updates<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Gujarat High Court Wednesday rejected a public interest litigation (PIL) against the election of tainted former Medical Council of India (MCI) chief - Get the latest legal news from the Supreme Court, High Courts, and government. 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Rejecting Desai's application, Justice Mukta Gupta said: 'Desai is the main accused and now being in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Top Law News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Top Law News","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/category\/top-law-news"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6H5Bf-23B","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}