A court on Saturday issued summons against 14 persons, including six doctors and two close aides of Bharatiya Janata Party leader, the late Pramod Mahajan.
Updated at 10.40pm
NEW DELHI: A local court on Saturday issued summons against 14 persons, including six doctors and two close aides of Bharatiya Janata Party leader, the late Pramod Mahajan, who were chargesheeted by the Delhi Police for destruction of evidence related to the Rahul Mahajan drug abuse case.
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Kamini Lau also directed the police to invoke relevant provisions regarding fabrication of evidence and giving false information to a public servant under Sections 193 under Section 177 of the Indian Penal Code.
Anupam Sibal, Prasad Rao, Awdesh Bansal, Mukund Pandey, Ali Mohammed Ganai and Abha Gupta and six staff of the hospital were directed to appear in person before the court on January 12 next year.
Pramod's close aides, Sudhanshu Mittal and Harish Sharma, have also been summoned on that day.
Delhi Police on Wednesday filed a chargesheet accusing the Apollo Hospital's management and its doctors of conspiring to deliberately mislead the probe into alleged drug abuse by Rahul Mahajan.
The chargesheet filed before the additional chief metropolitan magistrate alleged that the private hospital and its six doctors, at the instance of a close acquaintance of the family of late BJP leader Pramod Mahajan, committed the offence to save Rahul.
The doctors abetted with Mittal and Sharma in giving false information regarding the toxic state of Rahul, the chargesheet said.
Apollo says it has done no wrong
Apollo Hospital on Saturday night said it had done "no wrong" and welcomed the "opportunity to bring forth the facts".
"Indraprastha Apollo Hospital reiterates that it has done no wrong in the entire case," the hospital said.
Contending that the public and the court had heard just one side of the story, it said "We welcome the opportunity to bring forth the facts.
"The hospital saved the life of a young man, which was the prime objective of the healthcare provider. Saving people's life is inherent to the ethos and culture of the hospital".
The hospital said it had to act when faced with situations where a split second decision could make the difference between life and death.
The hospital management said the court had issued the summonses and "we have the right to examine and explore all possibilities therein within permissible limits".
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