Delhi Police claimed that it has established that there was no need for Rahul Mahajan to be put on ventilator after he was admitted there.
NEW DELHI: Delhi Police on Sunday claimed that it has established that there was no need for Rahul Mahajan to be put on ventilator after his admission in the Apollo Hospital after alleged drug abuse in the wee hours of June two.
However, Apollo Hospital said the conclusion was "very premature and motivated".
After interrogating around ten doctors and several technicians of the hospital for the last three days "we have been able to establish that there was no need to put Rahul on ventilator after his admission," a top investigating officer said.
"Either it is VIP syndrome or they had intention to hide something," he added.
"The vital parameters of Rahul at the time of his admission did not warrant ventilator support. Any other hospital would not have taken such a line of treatment," the police official said.
A high-level team led by ACP B B Chaudhary, himself a doctor, has been questioning doctors and other employees of the hospital to get a definite idea about the sequence of events after Rahul's admission in the hospital.
When contacted, Apollo's lawyer Lalit Bhasin said that "several doctors are yet to be interrogated by the police in connection with the case. Such a conclusion at this point of time is premature and motivated."
Police also believe that Rahul was kept in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) in an attempt to delay his questioning.
The investigators said they have also established that there was overwriting and cutting in the entry time records of Rahul and Vivek Moitra in the admission register.
Police is planning to interrogate all those employees involved, directly or indirectly, in providing treatment to Mahajan junior.
So far, investigators have quizzed 19 Apollo employees out of the nearly 50-odd summoned for questioning by them.
The Apollo staff have alleged they were being harassed by police, claiming that police officials were threatening doctors and staffers with "dire consequences" to name "higher-ups" of the hospital in the case.
Police had claimed that "tampering" was done at the highest level in the hospital to botch up the sensational drug drug abuse case. However, Apollo chief Pratap Reddy had strongly denied the claim.
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