Category: Criminal cases

Kolkata: In New town, a doctor who is the owner of a private nursing home was arrested on charges of raping an 18 year old nurse and holding her captive in his chamber for days. As per the nurse she had joined the nursing home 2 months ago. The nurse alleged that she was called by the doctor in her chamber and raped. Subsequently, she alleged that the doctor forcibly locked her in the chamber and threatened her to kill her if she discloses the incidence to others. After 5 days of being held captive she managed to escape from the chamber and narrated the incidence to her family members and she lodged the complaint against the accused doctor. The doctor has been arrested and the nurse underwent a medical test.

Bengaluru : The Malleswaram police has booked a doctor on charges of medical negligence after a newborn passed away due to the alleged delay in caesarean procedure. The family members of the dead newborn alleged that the doctor intentionally postponed the C-Section procedure in order to perform normal delivery. However after he noticed complication he decided to perform  C-Section but demanded bribe for performing the procedure. After the delivery, the doctor noticed that the newborn has serious complications and hence the newborn was shifted to ICU were the baby passed away. The family members alleged medical negligence along with bribery charges against the doctor. In response to the allegations the doctor an FIR has been lodged against the doctor. However the police has not arrested the doctor and is waiting for the post-mortem report of the newborn child.

Jagatsinghpur: Three doctors of Kujang Community Health Centre (CHC) were booked for their alleged negligence in treating a patient which reportedly led to his death. The police has registered a criminal case under section 304A & 34 of the IPC. The deceased Fakir Nath complained of chest pain in night after which his family took him to Kujang CHC. In Kujang CHC he was examined by an AYUSH doctor who prescribed medicines for gastric issues. When Nath’s condition did not improve, another doctor of the CHC administered him an injection. Soon after, his condition worsened. The MBBS doctor was allegedly away all this while. When he arrived an hour later, he checked Nath’s prescriptions and referred him to SCB Medical College and hospital in Cuttack where he succumbed. Following his death, Nath’s family alleged that he died due to negligence by the doctors though the CHC superintendent Prasanna Panda refuted the allegations.

Badaun, UP: Taking suo moto cognizance of the incident of women’s eyeballs missing after the post mortem, Dy Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh suspended the CMO of Badaun and two doctors who had conducted the autopsy have been booked and send to jail.   The doctors have been charged with the sale of human organs and sent to jail after a court of chief judicial magistrate allowed their judicial custody. The police action has invited sharp criticism from PMA doctors’ association, which has questioned the doctors’ arrest when a magisterial inquiry is pending.

The district police are currently probing the puzzling case of missing eyes of a female body from the Badaun government medical college. Inspector in-charge of Civil Lines police station, Gaurav Bishnoi, said a newly married bride had committed suicide after a spat with her husband. The post-mortem was conducted and after which the body was sent to her family for cremation. The woman’s family spotted her missing eyes before the cremation and reported the matter to the police and district administration. A second post-mortem of the woman’s body was conducted by a panel of three doctors on the directions of District Magistrate Manoj Kumar after which an FIR was registered on the complaint of woman’s brother against accused doctors and pharmacist for the missing eyes.

“During initial investigation, the statements of two doctors, who conducted the first post-mortem, pharmacists and other mortuary staff involved in the post-mortem process, were recorded. Their statements suggested that the eyes of the woman were missing before the examination and the doctors spotted it but did not inform the family of the deceased to avoid any trouble. They handed over the body after packing it,” said the inspector. “Even in this case, the doctors would have informed it in the post-mortem report, but they did not follow the procedure and it makes a case of negligence,” he added.

Mumbai :  Dr Ruby Tandon the high-profile dermatologist in Mumbai was arrested for allegedly acquiring a fake degree certificate to practice the profession. Dr Tandon was operating from Shifa Wellness Clinic at 198, Linking Road, Bandra West. She is married to actor Amit Tandon and several celebrities were her clients. Bandra police have booked her for forgery, and cheating as well as under the Maharashtra Medical Practitioners Act.

The Bandra police received a written complaint from an anonymous source claiming that Dr Tandon’s degree was fake and required further investigation. The police forwarded the complaint to Dr Deepak Chavan, the medical officer of the Mumbai Municipal Corporation. When asked to provide her degree certificate by Dr Chavan , Dr Tandon presented a colour printout of a Medical Council of India registration certificate and a license from the Medical Council. Dr Chavan and his team then contacted the Maharashtra Medical Council. During the BMC’s inquiry, it was discovered that Dr Tandon had no registration with the Maharashtra Medical Council in Mumbai. A joint team of police and BMC officials, under the leadership of Inspector Pradeep Kerkar from the Bandra police station, visited the clinic and questioned her and her husband.

The certificates provided by Dr Ruby Tandon displayed the names of Dr Rupinder Dhaliwal and Rupinder Tandon Jagat Dhaliwal. When the police inquired about the differing names on the certificates, Dr Tandon explained that her surname was Dhaliwal before her marriage. Upon verification on the issuing institution’s website, BMC officials found no corresponding entries. Dr Chavan subsequently filed a formal complaint with the Bandra police, resulting in the registration of a first information report (FIR) under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code and other sections of the Maharashtra Medical Practitioner Act 1961.

Chennai : Three AYUSH doctors (BUMS, BHMS & BSMS doctors- one each) have been booked for allegedly prescribing allopathic medicine to the patients without any degree or knowledge of allopathy. Ma Subramanian said that the three AYUSH doctors were booked by the directorate of medical services and added that these practitioners were engaged in “quackery” which involves treatment or medications that they are not qualified to administer.  

Etawah :  The government hospital cardiologist posted at the UP Medical Science University, Saifai in Etawah district was arrested for implanting substandard pacemakers between 2017-2021 and overcharging the patients. The cardiologist has implanted substandard pacemakers in 600 patients which led to the deaths of nearly 200 patients. It is being alleged that the cardiologist implanted substandard pacemakers as he was lured by commission and sponsored foreign trip.

According to the chief medical superintendent of the UP Medical Science University, Dr. Adesh Kumar, that during the investigation it came to the fore that the cardiologist was using non-MRI cheap quality pacemakers. Also, the cardiologist had replaced regular MRI pacemakers with non-MRI pacemakers by putting stickers of the former on the later. The cardiologist has supplied non-MRI pacemakers to patients at a price several times higher than the actual price charged by the university.

The cardiologist implanting the substandard pacemakers in patients started to gather steam in 2021 when the vice chancellor at the university received multiple complaints, prompting him to order an inquiry. Investigations revealed that the pacemakers were sourced at low prices which led to the then chief medical superintendent of the medical college Dr. Adesh Kumar to file a complaint against Sarraf in December 2021. Further investigations into the matter began in February 2022 and Sarraf was eventually suspended and arrested later. Ever since the news of Sarraf’s arrest hit the headlines, families of a few patients, whose loved ones were treated by him during the four-year period, have come out in the open and slammed him for implanting the faulty devices.

“The accused has been identified as Dr Sameer Sarraf, who is facing charges for implanting substandard pacemakers, financial irregularities and others. He was produced before the special court in Lucknow that deals with the cases lodged under Prevention of Corruption Act 1988,” senior police officer Sanjay Kumar said.

Bengaluru : An FIR was registered against Sanjeevini Hospital doctor and staff after a three-year-old girl was administered expired medicine by the hospital staff. According to the FIR, staff at Sanjeevini Hospital administered expired medicine named multiple electrolytes and dextrose. A nurse at the hospital administered a medicine which had expired two months ago to the girl. The girl’s parents staged a protest in front of the hospital after she allegedly suffered rashes in her mouth because of the side effects of expired medicine. Meanwhile, the hospital has reportedly suspended a nurse and a pharmacist and the same has been communicated to the police. A case of adulteration of drugs (IPC 274), sale of adulterated drugs (IPC 275), and causing hurt by the act of endangering the life of others (IPC 337) has been registered against the hospital.

Tirunelveli : A female attendant has alleged that an orthopedician has sexually harassed her under the influence of alcohol in Thisayanvilai. Meanwhile, the family of the complainant has demanded that the accused be arrested and called the police “biased” for allegedly refusing to file an FIR.   

According to the complaint lodged by the victim, who recently got married, the accused allegedly misbehaved with her on the pretext of examining her father at Jerry Hospital. At around 7.15 PM, I took my father to Jerry Hospital for a checkup. The accused asked me to wait. At 9 PM, I went to the doctor’s room and requested him to treat my father, citing the delay. He brought me and my father to another room. He made my father lie on a bed and approached me and said he would treat my father in exchange for sexual favours. He forced me to sit beside him and locked the door. Panicked by this, I rushed out of the room,” read the complaint.

Shortly after, she said, the doctor chased her father out of the room when he confronted the accused.

“The police should take action against him to ensure the safety of other women,” she said. The father of the complainant said that the nurses at the reception apologised to him, and defended the doctor’s actions by saying that he was in an inebriated state.

The father and daughter approached the Thisayanvilai police the next day. “My daughter and I had to wait at the station from 10 am to 7 pm. The police registered a CSR (community service register) based on her complaint but refused to file an FIR. Some police personnel said that an FIR had been registered, but we were denied a copy. If the police do not arrest the doctor, we will stage a protest,” said the father. When contacted, Superintendent of Police N Silambarasan confirmed to TNIE that an FIR was registered against the doctor, and added that further investigation into the matter is on.

Legal PrescriptionThe doctors should not keep the patient waiting for long period without any valid reason in OPDIn case of delay the doctor should communicate the same to the patient and their relatives Whenever a male doctor has to examine a female patient it is advisable to have a female assistant or a female relative of the patient while examiningThe doctor should not be in an inebriated state while examining a patient as it is not only negligence but goes against the ethics of medical practitionerThe doctor seeking sexual favors in lieu of treatment will lead to criminal offence against the doctor

Mumbai :  Dr Ruby Tandon the high-profile dermatologist in Mumbai was arrested for allegedly acquiring a fake degree certificate to practice the profession. Dr Tandon was operating from Shifa Wellness Clinic at 198, Linking Road, Bandra West. She is married to actor Amit Tandon and several celebrities were her clients. Bandra police have booked her for forgery, and cheating as well as under the Maharashtra Medical Practitioners Act.

The Bandra police received a written complaint from an anonymous source claiming that Dr Tandon’s degree was fake and required further investigation. The police forwarded the complaint to Dr Deepak Chavan, the medical officer of the Mumbai Municipal Corporation. When asked to provide her degree certificate by Dr Chavan , Dr Tandon presented a colour printout of a Medical Council of India registration certificate and a license from the Medical Council. Dr Chavan and his team then contacted the Maharashtra Medical Council. During the BMC’s inquiry, it was discovered that Dr Tandon had no registration with the Maharashtra Medical Council in Mumbai. A joint team of police and BMC officials, under the leadership of Inspector Pradeep Kerkar from the Bandra police station, visited the clinic and questioned her and her husband.

The certificates provided by Dr Ruby Tandon displayed the names of Dr Rupinder Dhaliwal and Rupinder Tandon Jagat Dhaliwal. When the police inquired about the differing names on the certificates, Dr Tandon explained that her surname was Dhaliwal before her marriage. Upon verification on the issuing institution’s website, BMC officials found no corresponding entries. Dr Chavan subsequently filed a formal complaint with the Bandra police, resulting in the registration of a first information report (FIR) under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code and other sections of the Maharashtra Medical Practitioner Act 1961.