Patna Court, Doctors' Committee Reach Different Conclusions
Patna: June 17, 2008
Even as a Patna court on Tuesday indicted six junior doctors of Patna Medical College and Hospital (PMCH) in the recent assault on press photographers, a 7-member committee comprising PMCH senior doctors and other officials formed to investigate the incident gave a clean chit to all 11 junior doctors who were earlier suspended for leading the attacks on the media reporters.
The committee formed at the behest of Bihar government on Tuesday put the entire blame on the press photographers saying it were they who instigated the doctors and allowed over 200 people to attack the junior doctors.
Recommending the reinstatement of the suspended doctors, the committee that included the Orthopedic Department head Dr. Arjun Singh, Physiology Department acting head Dr. Rajiv Ranjan Prasad, PMCH Superintendent Dr. O. P. Chowdhary, Medicine Head of the Department Dr. Vijay Prakash, Pediatrics Department head Dr. Sanjita Roy Chowdhary, Surgery Department head Dr. Sudhir Kumar, and ENT head Dr. Chandrashekhar, said the claim that some photographers were injured in the incident were also false and were made up to malign the junior doctors.
Earlier, Chief Judicial Magistrate Raghavendra Singh declared six junior doctors offenders in the June 5 incident during which three photographers were hurt and taken to other hospitals for medical care.
Those who were indicted by the court included Kumar Anand of Araria, Vinod Kumar Paswan of Purnia, Sukhdeo Acharya of West Bengal, Sanjit Kumar Agrawal and Arun Das of Jharkhand, and Anil Kumar of Uttar Pradesh.
All suspended doctors are still on run to avoid arrests.
The court also ordered attachment of their properties if they failed to surrender voluntarily.
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