Tables may have turned on Ulhasnagar builder Ashok Wadhwa who had sought treatment from a gastroenterologist while in jail.
The Bombay high court on Thursday issued a notice to him for allegedly fabricating medical records to stay out of prison under the pretext of illness. Wadhwa has been arrested in connection with the murder of one Bhisham Karma in January 2008.
Last week, justice DG Karnik had slammed the state government for inadequate facilities in prison owing to which Wadhwa, who was seeking corrective treatment prior to a liver transplant, was denied proper medical attention. “Why should the accused suffer because you [state government] have no medical facilities?” justice Karnik had said, asking the state government whether there were any gastroenterologists at any of the government hospitals.
On Thursday, when the case came up for hearing again, public prosecutor PA Pol and additional public prosecutor Anuradha Mane told the court that a gastroenterologist was available at KEM Hospital. But the prosecution also informed the court that various documents submitted by Wadhwa and a private medial practitioner were fabricated to misuse the liberty granted to him on medical grounds.
The court has now also indicated that the doctor as well as the police escorts who accompanied Wadhwa when he was granted temporary bail in September 2009 on medical grounds would also be taken to task.
Wadhwa in his bail application had stated that he was in need of a liver transplant but the doctors at Wockhardt Hospital could not perform a surgery until his health was stable. The prosecution, however, said that Wadhwa’s doctor had illegally used the letterhead of Wockhardt Hospital.
The court will hear the matter again after two weeks.
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