After rifle recovery at GMC Anantnag, Srinagar hospital orders verification of doctors’ lockers

The two were identified as Pulwama resident Dr Muzammil Ahmad Ganai and Dr Adeel Majeed Rather from Qazigund. When police searched Rather’s locker at the GMC Anantnag, where he worked as a senior resident until October last year, they recovered an AK-47 rifle and ammunition.

“It is impressed upon all the faculty members, heads of the departments, paramedical staff and students to personally identify their lockers and label them with their name, designation and code,” the order issued on Tuesday states.

This exercise, the administrator said, has to be completed within the next three days, following which Medical Superintendents of the government’s SMHS Hospital, Srinagar and Resident Medical Officers of respective floors will carry out an inspection and “sort out extra surplus lockers that are unnecessarily occupying space” of hospital corridors and the GMC building corridors at various places.

The administrator has also emphasised that “no chance will be given to any employee to have any claim on the lockers that will not be identified after the specified period”.

Additionally, section officers, estates officer and accounts section have been directed not to issue a no-objection certificate or service book on transfer of any employee “until and unless the individual locker of (the) employee is not handed over”.

At GMC Anantnag, too, similar orders have been issued by the hospital administration with a directive that any unidentified locker that is not allotted should be reported to the Superintendent.