Delhi Police today claimed that they had established that there was no need for Rahul Mahajan to be put on ventilator after his admission to Apollo Hospital following the alleged drug abuse in the wee hours of June 2. | |
| However, Apollo Hospital said the police conclusion was "very premature and motivated". |
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| After interrogating around 10 doctors and several technicians of the hospital for the last three days, "we have been able to establish that there was no need to put Rahul on ventilator after his admission," a top investigating officer said. |
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| "Either it is VIP syndrome or they had intention to hide something," he added. |
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| "The vital parameters of Rahul at the time of his admission did not warrant ventilator support. Any other hospital would not have taken such a line of treatment," the officer said. |
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| A high-level team led by ACP B B Chaudhary, himself a doctor, has been questioning doctors and other employees of the hospital to get a definite idea about the sequence of events after Rahul's admission in the hospital. |
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| When contacted, Apollo's lawyer Lalit Bhasin said, "Several doctors are yet to be interrogated by the police in connection with the case. Such a conclusion at this point of time is premature and motivated." |
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| The police also believe that Rahul was kept in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) in an attempt to delay his questioning. |
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| The investigators said they had also established that there was overwriting and cutting in the entry time records of Rahul and Vivek Moitra in the admission register. |
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| The police are planning to interrogate all those employees involved, directly or indirectly, in providing treatment to Mahajan junior. |
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| So far, the investigators have quizzed 19 Apollo employees out of the nearly 50-odd summoned for questioning by them. |
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| The Apollo staff have alleged that the police officers are threatening them with "dire consequences" to name "higher-ups" of the hospital in the case. |
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| The police had claimed that "tampering" was done at the highest level in the hospital to botch up the sensational drug abuse case. However, Apollo chief Pratap Reddy had strongly denied the claim. |
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