New Delhi: The Delhi Police on Sunday claimed that it has established that there was no need for Rahul Mahajan, son of late BJP leader Pramod Mahajan, to be put on ventilator in the Apollo Hospital where he was admitted on June 2.
Police believe that Rahul was kept in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) in an attempt to delay his questioning. Police officials said they have also established that there was overwriting and cutting in the entry time records of Rahul and Bibek Maitra, Mahajan’s secretary who died, in the admission register.
After interrogating 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," said a police officer.
"Either it is VIP syndrome or they had intention to hide something," he said. "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."
A police team led by ACP B B Chaudhary, a doctor, questioned the hospital’s officials to get an idea about the sequence of events after Rahul's admission.
Apollo's lawyer Lalit Bhasin said the police’s claim was premature. "Several doctors are yet to be interrogated in connection with the case. Such a conclusion at this point of time is premature and motivated," said Bhasin.
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 has alleged police was harassing them.
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