New Delhi, September 23:The medical superintendent of a premier hospital here Wednesday accused a senior police official of framing him by registering a false case of cheating, forgery and criminal conspiracy against him last month but the latter has denied the charge.
Safdarjung Hospital medical superintendent Jagdish Prasad Rai told reporters that police inspector Ramesh Kakkar had approached him in July seeking admission for one of the relatives of Deputy Commissioner of Police (South Delhi) H.G.S. Dhaliwal in a post-graduation course in medicine, for which a competitive exam was conducted July 13.
“But I refused and was threatened by the police inspector. Later through the media I got to know that a false case was registered against me on Aug 28 on the complaint of a blind man who sells cigarettes in the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS),” he said.
“I think the false case was registered on directions of Dhaliwal,” he added.
Dhaliwal in a written statement rebuffed the allegations against him.
“It is clarified that none of my relatives has ever applied for admission in any course at Safdarjung the Hospital. The false statement by medical superintendent has been made to mislead and take the attention away from the investigation into charges of cheating levelled by the physically challenged persons belonging to native district Jagdish Prasad Rai,” Dhaliwal said.
Jagat Narayan, who is visually impaired, and S.K. Sinha, who is disabled, had lodged a complaint at the Sarojini Nagar police station that Rai had cheated them of Rs.22 lakh.
They said in their statement that Rai had promised to award them a contract to run the hospital canteen on a 90-year lease under the quota for the disabled.
In the complaint they alleged that Rai’s relative Virender had taken the money on his behalf.
Following the complaint, police registered a case against Rai and Virender under sections 420 (cheating), 406 (breach of trust) and 36 (criminal act done by several persons with common intention) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
Rai told IANS that Narayan frequently files complaints and police had instructed him to level false allegations against him (Rai).
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