Monday, December 07, 2015

FIR against former med council officials for tampering records

Times of India: Jaipur: Monday, 07 December 2015.
An FIR has been registered with Ashok Nagar police station against the former office bearers of Rajasthan Medical Council for tampering with the hospital documents related to mysterious death of a dentist, 14 years ago. The dentist's father who is also a doctor alleged that the death was under mysterious circumstances, but to cover up the real cause of death, the doctors tampered with the documents. The father has expressed suspicion about his daughter-in-law who has been missing since her husband's death.
According to the police, dentist Anurag Pandey, a resident of Mansarovar in the city, had his clinic adjoining his house. "He was rushed to SMS hospital in critical condition on December 31, 2001 from where he was referred to a private hospital. Anurag died while undergoing treatment," said sub-inspector Gita Chaudhary who is probing the case.
She said that when Anurag's father Shivkant Pandey came to the hospital the next day the doctors didn't tell him clearly the cause of death. The doctors at the medical council issued bogus documents explaining his cause of death.
"After RTI came into force, he filed an RTI for medical council records. He found that the records had been tampered with. There were many corrections in the records. From the very beginning, he thought that Anurag's death was suspicious. His daughter-in-law left home the next day and never came back. He thinks she is abroad," said the officer.
The police officials said that an FIR has been registered against doctors including Bhagwan Sahay Mishra, Dr Archana Johari and Shashimohan Sharma under sections 218 (public servant framing incorrect record or writing with intent to save person from punishment or property from forfeiture), 219 (public servant in judicial proceeding corruptly making report, etc., contrary to law) and 120B (criminal conspiracy) of IPC.