HC dismisses plea seeking Parrikar’s health report

Panaji, December 20

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The Bombay High Court today dismissed a plea seeking medical examination of ailing Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar and releasing the diagnosis report in public domain as “outrageous overstepping” on an individual’s privacy, saying mere ill-health does not make a constitutional functionary “incapable” of holding his post.

Parrikar, who is suffering from a pancreatic ailment, is more or less confined to his house since October. A Division Bench of Justice Prithviraj K Chavan and RM Borde termed the petition “a half-hearted attempt to make serious inroads in the territory of privacy of an individual”.

Petitioner Trajano D’Mello had sought details of Parrikar’s health and demanded that a panel of doctors examine him and submit a report which should be made public.

The court said the petition sought “strictly private and confidential information” without making CM a party to the proceedings. “This was not acceptable,” it said. — PTI