Govt. told to expedite construction of organ transplantation institute
The Hindu
HC dismisses PIL petition filed in 2017
The High Court of Karnataka on Tuesday directed the State Government to commence construction of a new building for the Gastroenterology Sciences and Organ Transplantation Institute in the land identified on the premises of SDS Tuberculosis Research Centre and Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Chest Diseases, Benglauru.
A Division Bench, comprising Chief Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi and Justice Suraj Govindaraj, passed the order while dismissing a PIL petition filed in 2017 by R. Chandrashekara, a former Vice-Chancellor of Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences and B. Rudrappa, a retired government doctor.
The petitioners had contended that construction of new building at the proposed land affected the fresh air required for the tuberculosis patients.
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