A day after a Pune-based lady doctor registered a complaint against six prominent doctors, she alleged that they had been harassing her for the past three to four months. They had used derogatory language and demand money from her, she alleged.
A day after a Pune-based lady doctor registered a complaint against six prominent doctors, she alleged that they had been harassing her for the past three to four months. They had used derogatory language and demand money from her, she alleged.
"After I filed my nomination as a presidential candidate for the Obesity Surgery Society of India (OSSI), they (the six doctors) started harassing me," the lady doctor claimed.
The complainant is a well-known bariatric surgeon. Even the doctors against whom she registered the complaint in Pune's Samarth police station are renowned bariatric surgeons. One of the six doctors named in the complaint is 47-year-old Dr Mufazzal Lakdawala from Mumbai, who had recently operated upon the world's heaviest woman, Emam Ahmed, from Egypt.
The other five doctors are Dr Pradeep Choubey, Dr Shrihari Dhore-Patil, Dr Rajesh Khullar, Dr Atul Peters, and Dr Surendra Ugale.
Speaking to DNA, the complainant claimed that after being harassed by these doctors for months at a stretch, she decided to file a case against them. "I am still in shock. Why are they behaving like this with me? If I had continue to put up with the ordeal, people would have blamed me for keeping mum," she said.
When asked why she was being harassed, the doctor said, "I had filed a nomination as a presidential candidate for the OSSI, that's when the harassment begun. They started using foul words against me and kept threatening me. They also demanded Rs 20 lakh from me."
When DNA contacted senior police inspector Rajendra Mohite, in-charge of Samarth police station, he said, "According to the plaintiff's statement, she had been receiving calls and emails from theses six doctors, who had also insulted her during meetings held in Delhi, Chennai, and Goa."
"We will now be recording the statements of these doctors; further action will be taken accordingly," Mohite said.
Meanwhile, the Obesity Surgery Society of India (OSSI) has backed all the six doctors named in the FIR by the complainant and it has refuted all her allegations. Issuing the statement on the issue, Dr Arun Prasad, president of OSSI has stated that all the six members (doctors named in FIR) are respected doctors with great reputation and contribution where some of them were past presidents of OSSI.
"Two of these six members were assigned the responsibility by the society's general body to investigate the financial irregularities during the IFSO-APC 2017, a conference held at Goa of which the complainant was organising secretary. As a society, we refute all allegations. We feel that all the allegations are motivated, concocted and baseless. We stand by our six members completely," the statement reads.
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