Employees State Insurance Corporation and Anr. v. State of Karnataka and Ors.
Case brief
What is this about?
Writ appeals by ESIC Medical Division-IV, New Delhi and ESIC Medical College and Hospital, Kalaburagi against Single Judge orders dated 18.03.2020 disposing of MBBS students' writ petitions (W.P.Nos.225466/2020 & 225539-553/2020; 223898/2020 & 225484-507/2020; 225558-560/2020; 223897/2020 & 225508-538/2020) in terms of Shabana Salahudheen v. Union of India, W.P.Nos.29365-29368/2018 (EDN-RES), dt. 14.02.2020 (five-year compulsory service bond restrained). Dismissed on 19.06.2025 (Kalaburagi Bench; DB: Mohammad Nawaz & K.S. Hemalekha JJ.) for non-service of contesting student-respondents and lapse of the five-year term, with liberty to revive subject to the outcome of Principal Bench appeals against Shabana; pending I.As. disposed. Keywords: compulsory service bond; five year service obligation; MBBS admission; ESI Corporation; dismissal for non-service of respondents; revival of appeal; Karnataka High Courts Act Section 4; NC: 2025:KHC-K:3224-DB.