CHENNAI: The Madras High Court dis­missed a peti­tion chal­len­ging the appoint­ment of a Unani pro­fessor, reas­on­ing that claims of a lack of qual­i­fic­a­tion were invalid.

The quo war­ranto peti­tion was filed by Unani prac­ti­tioner Dr A Khaleel Ahmed, an assist­ant med­ical officer at the Ramanath­apuram GH. He pre­vi­ously worked as an assist­ant pro­fessor at the Gov­ern­ment Unani Med­ical Col­lege and Hos­pital in Chen­nai. He stated that he was trans­ferred based on sev­eral com­plaints against him made by Dr Mubasheera Begum and oth­ers.

He alleged that Dr Mubasheera Begum was appoin­ted as a pro­fessor des­pite not being qual­i­fied under the rules, and claimed that she was now appoin­ted as a post­gradu­ate guide and exam­iner for

Unani gen­eral medi­cine stu­dents.

He ques­tioned the leg­al­ity of her appoint­ment and reques­ted that she be removed from the post. When the case came up for hear­ing before Justice D Bharatha Chakrav­arthy, the peti­tioner’s coun­sel sub­mit­ted that Begum had falsely filed an affi­davit claim­ing 10 years of exper­i­ence with no prior teach­ing exper­i­ence. In response, Begum filed a counter affi­davit stat­ing that she has 20 years of teach­ing exper­i­ence. Sim­il­arly, the prin­cipal of the Unani Med­ical Col­lege also filed a peti­tion stat­ing that she has more than 10 years of teach­ing exper­i­ence in med­ical sub­jects.

After hear­ing the argu­ments from all sides, the judge dis­missed the quo war­ranto peti­tion, stat­ing that he could not accept the peti­tioner’s claim that Dr Mubasheera Begum was not qual­i­fied.