Srinagar, Feb. 7 -- Following public outcry, Jammu and Kashmir government on Thursday suspended two doctors, banned them from private practice and sealed operation theatre of a private hospital after grave allegations of medical negligence in north Kashmir's Baramulla district.

There were allegations that a woman patient, who had to undergo an ear operation by one set of doctors at a private hospital, was instead, subjected to a hysterectomy by another set of doctors, triggering outrage.

The health and medical education department suspended gynaecologist Dr Anjum Nazir and medical officer Tariq Ahmad Dar after they performed the alleged operation at a private hospital in Sopore town of Baramulla district on February 3. The news went vir...