MEHRAZ BANO & ANR. vs DR. RAJINDER K DHAMIJA & ORS.

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$~51 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Date of Decision : 18.07.2025 + CONT.CAS(C) 1050/2025 MEHRAZ BANO & ANR. .....Petitioners Through: Md. Azam Ansari, Advocate. versus DR. RAJINDER K DHAMIJA & ORS. .....Respondents Through: Mr. Tushar Sannu, SC with Ms. Aqsa, Advocate for R-1, 2 & 3. Mr. Gautam Narayan, Sr. Advocate for R-4. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE TEJAS KARIA TEJAS KARIA, J. (ORAL) CONT.CAS(C) 1050/2025 1. The Petitioners have filed the present Contempt Petition under Sections 11, 12 and 16 read with Section 2 (b) of the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971 (“the Act”) read with Article 215 of the Constitution of India for initiation of Contempt proceedings against the Respondents namely Respondent No. 1 Dr. Rajinder K Dhamija, Director IHBAS Hospital; Respondent No. 2 Dr. Deepak Kumar, HOD Psychiatry IHBAS Hospital; Respondent No. 3 Dr. Amit Khanna, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry IHBAS Hospital; and Respondent No. 4 Mr. Tushar Sannu, the learned Signature Not Verified Signed By:NEELAM CONT.CAS(C) 1050/2025 Page 1 of 11 SHARMA Signing Date:22.07.2025 22:14:23 Counsel for the Respondent Nos. 1 to 3 herein for wilful disobedience of the Order dated 28.04.2021 passed by this Court in W.P.(C) 4889/2021 (“Petition”) whereby except three persons i.e., Respondent Nos. 1 to 3 herein, no other person was permitted to access the medical records of Petitioner No. 2. The Petitioners contend that the Order which limited the access of the medical records of Petitioner No. 2 only to the team of treating doctors of IHBAS Hospital and no one else has been violated on the last date of hearing in the Petition on 09.07.2025. 2. The Petitioners have submitted that in the year 2021, Petitioner No. 2, who was a minor at that point of time, had moved the Petition through his mothe