New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Thursday extended the stay granted against the dismissal of AIIMS Director P Venugopal till November 7.
Justice P Anil Kumar extended the stay after Venugopal's counsel Maninder Singh sought time to file a rejoinder on the Centre's reply.
Dr Venugopal was dismissed last month as the Director of AIIMS by the governing body of the institute, following his differences with the Union Health Minister Dr Anbumani Ramadoss.
The Centre had on July 25 moved the Delhi High Court seeking quashing of the order of a single-judge bench which stayed the Institute's Governing Council's decision to terminate Venugopal's services.
Listing 45 grounds to justify the termination move, the Centre had accused Venugopal among other things of actively patronising the anti-reservation agitation by the resident doctors in the Institute's premises in May this year.
However, the Government later withdrew its appeal filed against the order of a single judge who had on July 7, stayed the AIIMS Governing Body's decision to terminate Venugopal's services.
Earlier this month, the Centre was directed by the Delhi High Court to file a reply on a PIL challenging Venugopal's appointment as Director.
A Division Bench headed by Justice M K Sharma also granted two weeks time to Venugopal to file his reply on the PIL filed by the Centre for Public Interest Litigation which his counsel Arun Jaitley alleged was "motivated and inspired" by the government.
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