Six Haryana doctors booked for conspiracy

The district police have booked five doctors, including the director of the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (PGIMS) under section 420 of the IPC on a complaint lodged by head of gastroenterology department at the PGIMS with Haryana DGP KP Singh.

The complainant, HOD Dr Parveen Malhotra alleged that Dr Manoj Goyal, Dr Shailender Agarwal, Dr Ramesh Jain, PGIMS director Dr Rakesh Gupta, assistant professor Dr Tarana Gupta and Delhi-based Subhash Mittal hatched a conspiracy to frame him in false sexual charges, because he had exposed Dr Goyal for charging ₹7,000 from a Hepatitis-C patient for tests available free of cost.

“Angered over my expose, they all started framing me in false charges. Dr Goyal runs a private hospital, in which most of these doctors have contributions, so they sided with him. PGIMS director Dr Gupta several times threatened me and tried to scare me,” he said.

Dr Malhotra said an inquiry was instituted against him on the basis of the ‘false’ complaints and he was removed as the nodal officer of the Haryana government’s Jeevan Rekha project for Hepatitis-C. However, he said he came out clean in the inquiry.

Based on his complaint, the police have booked the six under section 420 of the IPC. PGIMS director Dr Gupta has called the charges false. “It’s a conspiracy that will not work,” he said.