Doctor practice, Punjab Medical Council complains to police while suspended but India cancels the suspension

Punjab Medical Council (PMC) restored the license of a surgeon, which continued to practice under suspension. This, despite urging the police to work against the doctor on this basis, was illegal to do so. Nevertheless, the National Medical Commission refuses to take the patient’s complaint against this decision of PMC.The PMC refused to reveal whether the suspended surgeon has fulfilled the conditions that its morality committee allowed him to resume the practice – an analysis analysis analysis of the death of two patients that he had operated, and showing a certificate that he had trained himself. Laparoscopic hysterctomy,TOI asked PMC why its December 2024 order is Dr. Praveen Devgan The High Court order of November 20, 2024 cited the order when the court did not order the restoration of the license. In response, it produced another council order on April 25, 2025, claiming that the decision to restore the license was at the end of the six -month suspension period. After receiving an application from Devgan, it was taken in the General Body Meeting. During the period of suspension, Dr. Devgan continued to practice.“The case filed against his suspension by Dr. Devgan in July 2024 was still pending on 25 September. How did the PMC decide to restore his license before deciding the court case?” The complainant, asked Gokul Aneja, who has alleged medical negligence in the death of his wife Sunita Aniza. On October 1, 2018, Dr. Many fibroids and laparoscopic hysterctomy were detected by Parveen Devgan.Dr. in HC Devgan’s petition was “withdrawn” on 20 November last year as he made an application to withdraw the petition. The court neither stopped its suspension nor investigated its merits.At the PMC’s General Body Meeting held on July 21, 2023, “members of all councils unanimously decided that Dr. Parveen Devgan failed to demonstrate skills and care towards patients”. On December 21, 2023, the PMC’s final order suspended its registration for six months and removed them from practice. The order cited the recommendations of the Ethics Committee. These include them that they are stopped from performing any Laproscopic process in their own hospital or in any other hospital, until they have offered an basic cause analysis of deaths made by high institutes like PGI Chandigarh and trained in laparoscopic hysterctomy, and that he trains in laparoscopic hysterctomy from a recognized institute and offer certificates to PMC. The committee said that Dr. Devgan should initially be restrained for a minimum of six months, which can be carried forward until he complies with two conditions of the basic cause analysis and training certificate.When Dr. Devgan applied at Fortis Hospital, Noida for training in laparoscopic hysterctomy along with other procedures in laparoscopy, then the hospital informed them that they cannot be trained in laparoscopic gyani procedures “You do not have the required qualifications of post-graduation in observation and gyani as per NMC guidelines. The hospital letter in May 2024 states, “It is immoral and illegal for a general surgeon to do gynecological training or procedures as they do not have the required qualifications to do so.”On receiving this information that Dr. Devgan was practicing despite the suspension of the license, the Civil Surgeon of Amritsar inspected the hospital on 5 April 2024, and found that he was operating. He informed PMC and police in Amritsar. PMC urged the Commissioner of Police in Amritsar to take action as a practice, while his license was suspended, and against the Punjab Medical Registration Act and the National Commission Act.