Budhia's coach may be arrested

Bhubaneswar (Orissa): Budhia's coach Biranchi Das may be arrested if he makes the marathon wonder kid from Orissa run long distances further.

The Woman and Child Development Minister has declared this after he got recommendation from the Child Welfare Committee to stop Budhia running long distances on medical grounds.

The declaration also claimed that whoever makes the child prodigy run more marathons will be punished under the Juvenile Justice Act.

Says Woman and Child Development Minister, Pramilla Mallick, "We accept the recommendations of the Child Welfare Committee and for the benefit of Budhia we wont allow him to run long distances and if his coach makes him do that we will arrest him."

However, Budhia's coach, Biranchi Das has told CNN-IBN that he is ready to face any action by the Government and will decide further course of action on Budhia after getting Orissa High Courts decision on his petition filed on May 10.

The child and his coach have been embroiled in one controversy after the other ever since he ran for 65 kms from Puri to Bhubaneswar last week.

Earlier on Friday, Dr Nirmala Dei, the pediatrician who was a part of the five-member medical team that had examined Budhia received an annonymous threatening letter.

The doctor was threatened for conducting an examination on Budhia, in the letter that also warned her of 'dire consequences'.

She made a formal complaint to the Chief Medical Officer of the hospital and to the police.

The Superintendent of Police said that though they are going to conduct an investigation, the issue is not as serious as it seems.

He said that the letter could be the work of a mischief monger.

However, the letter has the doctor community extremely agitated.

On Monday, the state Government ordered a ban on his run after doctors declared him medically unfit.

The 13-page report submitted by the medical board stated, "If the boy continues to run for long distances, it may aggravate the condition, or may even result in renal failure as suggested in serum urea and serum potassium profile."

Budhia's coach, Biranchi Das had claimed that the check up was forcibly done in spite of a High Court stay on such an examination.

He said he would file an appeal for contempt of court case against the state Pramilla Mallick and the doctors who conducted the medical check up on Budhia.

Das also said that the medical examination was a conspiracy and claimed that people would soon come to know that the report is baseless.

Meanwhile, the CRPF has disassociated itself from Budhia's 65-km marathon run saying now that they had neither organised nor sponsored the run.

Earlier this week, medical experts and the National Human Rights Commission had criticised CRPF for its role in the marathon.