Shimla, Dec. 25 -- The Himachal Pradesh government on Wednesday sacked a senior resident doctor, who was involved in a violent scuffle with a patient at the Indira Gandhi Medical College here.

The government action came after a report by a high-level committee, formed to probe the incident that took place on Monday, found both parties - Arjun Pawar, the patient, and Raghav Narula, the senior resident doctor - at fault.

"Both the patient and the senior resident doctor were responsible for the incident, which amounted to misconduct, misbehaviour, acts unbecoming of a public servant, and violation of the resident doctor policy-2025," an order issued by the director of medical education and research said. In view of the above facts, the ser...