Police have turned their focus on Apollo hospital for its alleged attempt to cover up Rahul Mahajan’s drug intake. A source said police may charge the hospital with obstructing investigation and tampering with evidence.
NEW DELHI: Police have turned their focus on Apollo hospital for its alleged attempt to cover up Rahul Mahajan’s drug intake. A source said police may charge the hospital with obstructing investigation and tampering with evidence.
With this prospect looming large, hospital authorities changed their tune on Monday. They handed over Mahajan’s medical records to police and declared him fit for interrogation at 9:15am.
Police turned up the heat by summoning the hospital’s medical services director, Dr Anupam Sibal, for questioning. He was at the Tughlak Road police station for several hours in the afternoon accompanied by the doctors who were with him at Saturday’s press conference, when the hospital gave Mahajan a clean chit.
A source said the hospital has been making the police’s job difficult from the beginning. First, it did not inform them about Vivek Moitra’s death for two hours. He was brought dead to the hospital at around 3:15am on Friday, but police were told only at 5am.
Second, police found that Mahajan’s medical records indicate that doctors were aware his condition was most probably caused by a drug overdose, though the hospital insisted in its initial statement that there was no trace of any drugs. It later modified the statement and admitted that there were traces of cocaine and a cocktail of other drugs in his urine sample.
Third, Mahajan’s condition stabilised by Saturday and he was talking to his relatives over the weekend, but the hospital refused to let police question him, maintaining that he was unfit.
Police believe the hospital was under pressure from the Mahajan family and sections of the BJP that were close to Pramod Mahajan to protect Rahul from a drug charge. Dr Sibal was also hurriedly asked on Friday to rush back to Delhi from London. Upon arrival the next day, one of his first steps was to call a press conference where he declared Mahajan clean not only of drugs but also alcohol.
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