The CMM has directed the director, Health Services, to submit a detailed response in wake of the committee's reply on April 16.

The judge observed:``The committee strongly feels that the matter under inquiry relates to the disciplines of super speciality. Since many of the accused are known to most of the committee members, and since the complainant also questioned its competence to examine the subject matter, it is desirable that the department of concerned super specialities should look into the matter so that inquiry can be fair and unbiased.''

The CMM, however, expressed reservations about the complainant -- People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) -- appointing a nominee from the hospital to assist the Investigating Officer in the case. The representative reportedly belongs to the same hospital. ``If such a medical expert was required, such assistance could have been drawn from any source,'' the judge said.

``It should not be necessary for volunteers to be taken on board from the side of the complainant,'' he commented. He also observed that it was not right on the part of PUCL to send its nominee with the raiding party during the last raid on the hospital conducted on March 31. ``It was highly unethical on the complainant's part to depute a doctor from the same hospital, which was a subject matter of investigation,'' the CMM said.