Summary:
However, another single bench had upheld the government action.Citing the contradictory judgments by the single benches, the division bench said the doctrine of public policy is highly subjective, shifting, and even changing. “The State compels the student to serve one year in the State where she had honed her medical skills and acquired a higher qualification. They had declined to undergo the one-year compulsory service under the state government and had questioned detainment of certificates demanding payment of Rs20 lakh each.It was considering one of their petitions that a single bench held that detaining of certificates is against public policy. After all the State invests and subsidizes medical education. So those who get benefited must repay their debt – of gratitude,” the judgment stated..