BMW hit and run: Police yet to start probe against FSL doctor for switching blood samples

THE TWIST IN BLOOD SAMPLES

Two months after an FIR was lodged, the police are yet to begin probe against the forensic science laboratory (FSL) doctor who is charged with having changed the blood samples of Sidharth Maharia, son of BJP legislator Nand Kishore Maharia, during the course of an investigation.

The MLA’s son is accused of causing the death of three persons and injuring five when his BMW car rammed into an auto rickshaw and a police PCR van on the intervening night of July 1 and 2 in 2016. The incident took place near St Xavier’s School here.

The FIR was lodged against the doctor at Shastri Nagar police station on January 12 on the basis of an enquiry by the home department which found his involvement in the changing of junior Maharia’s blood samples.

Jagmohan Sharma, assistant commissioner of police, Shastri BJP legislator Maharia’s son allegedly rammed his car into an auto and a PCR van Three people were killed and five injured

The breatherlyser test found he was drunk However the blood test came clean, leading to a home department probe It was found that a doctor had switched samples Police have yet to launch a probe against the doctor

Nagar, and the investigating officer in the case, said that the police are yet to receive a certified copy of the enquiry report from the home department.

The home department, on the other hand, claims that the police did not request a certified copy from them. “If they ask us for a certified copy, we’ll provide them one,” said Kaluram, deputy secretary, home.

Jaipur police had conducted a breath analyzer test on Maharia after the accident, which had shown that he was intoxicated. However, the blood sample report submitted in court by the FSL showed that there was no trace of alcohol in his blood.

Faced with the contradiction, the home department ordered an inquiry into the matter. Special secretary Devendra Dixit was in charge of the inquiry.

In the report, Dixit has stated that the blood sample in which alcohol wasn’t found was different from the sample taken on July 2 by the doctors. The enquiry report had found clear role of Dr Vinod Jain, head of the FSL team, in the fudging of samples.

In the FIR, Jain has been charged with forgery, cheating in the delivery of valuable property, producing false evidence, corruption in making of the report during a judicial proceeding, causing the disappearance of evidence with the intention of shielding the offender, and criminal conspiracy.

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