Three more juveniles held for Delhi doctor's murder
New Delhi, Oct 4: Three more juveniles were on Friday apprehended in connection with the murder of a doctor in southeast Delhi's Kalindi Kunj area, police said
On Thursday, a boy, around 16 years, was held for allegedly opening fire at Dr Javed Akhtar, a Unani practitioner (BUMS), they said.
The incident happened inside the three-bedded Nima Hospital in Khadda Colony at around 1 am on Thursday.
After committing the crime, he uploaded a post on a social media platform with his photograph and a caption: "Kar diya 2024 mein murder" (Finally committed murder in 2024).
Police had recovered the CCTV footage from the spot where they spotted two boys, but later found out the involvement of one more juvenile in the case.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (southeast) Rajesh Deo said one of the juveniles had visited the nursing home after getting injured in an accident in Faridabad on intervening night of September 20 and 21.
"He was accompanied by another minor. Akhtar treated him and subsequently raised a bill of Rs 1,200. The juvenile objected to it alleging that the doctor was overcharging him and finally paid Rs 400 before leaving the centre," Deo said.
The minor was rebuked and humiliated by Akhtar and the hospital staff, the officer said.
About 10 days later, he along with his aunt went to the nursing home to get the bandages removed. However, the staff denied and he was again scolded by the doctor, he said, adding that angry over the humiliation, the boy decided to take revenge and hatched a plan with two of his friends to eliminate Akhtar.
The trio procured a country made pistol from northeast Delhi.
On October 1, one of them got injured and went to the nursing home where he recced the centre and the next night, the three teenagers carried out the killing, Deo said.
The main shooter was apprehended by a team of Delhi Police Crime Branch from near Anand Vihar on Thursday while the other two were held by the local police on Friday, a police officer said.
The weapon of offence and a live cartridge have been recovered from one of them and they were further interrogated, the police said.
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'Low-quality' catheters supplied to West Bengal govt hospitals at high price, probe ordered
Kolkata (PTI): The West Bengal health department has launched a probe into the supplies of allegedly low-quality and locally made catheters at a high price to several government hospitals, posing a risk to the lives of patients undergoing treatment in these facilities, officials said.
Such central venous catheters (CVCs) were allegedly supplied to at least five medical colleges and hospitals in the state, defying allocation of international standard-compliant CVCs, they said.
The distribution company, which has been accused of supplying these catheters to government hospitals, admitted to the fault but placed the blame on its employees.
"We started checking stocks some time back and found these locally made CVCs in my hospital store. These catheters are of low quality as compared to those allocated by the state. We have informed the state health department," a senior official of the Calcutta Medical College and Hospital told PTI.
Low-quality catheters were also found in the stores of other hospitals, which indicates "possible involvement of insiders in the scam", a health department official said.
The low-quality CVCs were supplied by a distributor in the Hatibagan area in the northern part of Kolkata for the last three to four months, he said.
"Such kinds of local CVCs are priced around Rs 1,500 but the distributor took Rs 4,177 for each device," the official said.
A CVC is a thin and flexible tube that is inserted into a vein to allow for the administration of fluids, blood, and other treatment. It's also clinically called a central line catheter.
"An initial probe revealed that the distribution company Prakash Surgical had supplied the low-quality and locally manufactured catheters to several government hospitals instead of the CVCs of the government-designated international company.
"All the units will be tested and a proper investigation is on to find out who benefited from these supplies," the health department official said.
The distribution company blamed its employees for the supply of inferior quality catheters.
"I was sick for a few months. Some employees of the organisation made this mistake. We are taking back all those units that have gone to the hospitals. It's all about misunderstanding," an official of the distribution company told PTI.
According to another state health department official, a complaint was lodged with the police in this connection.
Asked about how many patients were affected by the usage of such low-quality CVCs, the official said, "The probe would also try to find that out".
According to sources in the health department, some of the staff of the hospitals' equipment receiving departments and some local officials of international organisations might be involved in the alleged irregularities.
