Rawat went into hiding after the incident and a man named Ishaq Ahmed surrendered in the court last week and claimed he was driving the car. Ahmed later said that he was driving a truck in Gujarat when the accident took place.
Dr Manish Rawat, the neurosurgeon at Safdarjung hospital, whose Audi Q7 rammed into an autorickshaw, killing four people in Ghaziabad on the intervening night of January 26-27, was around the accident site minutes after the crash. Police claimed that his mobile data records confirm that.
Rawat went into hiding after the incident and a man named Ishaq Ahmed surrendered in the court last week and claimed he was driving the car. Ahmed later said that he was driving a truck in Gujarat when the accident took place.
"Rawat has not appeared before investigators so far. We will move court on Sunday seeking a non-bailable warrant against him," said Salman Taj, Superintendent of Police (City), Ghaziabad.
"It is quite apparent that Ahmed was planted at the behest of someone. That is part of the investigation now," said a senior UP police officer.
Sudama Singh, security officer at the apartments where Rawat lived, said that Rawat did not have a driver, and there was no identity card issued in that name.
The police are also on the lookout for Brijesh Singh and Suraj Tiwari, residents of Indirapuram, Ghaziabad, and Bareilly, respectively. Both have signed as witnesses in Ahmed's bail papers.
Incidentally, Rawat has worked in Bareilly earlier. Rawat has not reported at Safdarjung hospital since the accident.
According to Safdarjung hospital sources, a leave application was found on the table of the head of the department, which mentioned that he will be on leave from January 28 to February 4. The department is in the dark as to where the leave application came from and who delivered it.
Rawat was supposed to join the hospital on Saturday but he did not. "We did not have much interaction with him. Doctors at neurosurgery are overburdened and are mostly in the operation theatres. He had no fights and confrontations with anyone," said a senior doctor.
The UP police have come in for a lot of criticism for their alleged slack investigation. For one, they failed to pick up crucial evidence to establish who was behind the wheels. Neither did the police contact the owner of the flat in Olive Apartments in which Rawat lived, nor did they take the CCTV footage from the apartments.
The footage is automatically deleted after three days. The owner of the flat is an IAS officer.
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