A doctor was dismissed from service on Friday after a video of his pre-wedding photoshoot held inside an operation theatre of a government-run hospital in Karnataka’s Chitradurga district went viral on social media, officials said.

A controversy had erupted after a video went viral on social media showing the photo shoot, themed on medical procedures, of the contract-based physician at the district hospital in the Bharamasagar area.

Taking to social media platform ‘X’, Karnataka Health Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao said the doctor who conducted a pre-wedding shoot in the operation theatre of Bharamasagar government Hospital in Chitradurga has been dismissed from service.