Chennai Hospital Ransacking case: CB-CID arrests Five more hired goons

Coimbatore: Following the Chennai Hospital ransacking case where the managing director of Ellen hospital, his close associate and three other people were arrested, the CB-CID arrested five more hired goons. 

The accused have been identified as R Palanisamy aged 40 from Rathinapuri, S Jaihar aged 40 and Purushothaman aged 45 both from Sivananda Colony, A Vincent Sanjay aged 39 from Gandhipuram and A Suresh Babu alias Auto Babu aged 46 from Vellalore.

As per the cops, Murty hired the arrested goons and sent them to the Chennai hospital to ransack the hospital.

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Medical Dialogues team had earlier reported on this the accused identified as P Ramachandran, 75, who is the managing director and Dr Kamaraj, his close associate were arrested. Along with them, the police arrested Murthy, 45, a hired goon from Mani Nagar at Rathinapuri, Dr Ramachandran's personal assistant Murugesh, 47, and his car driver Palanisamy.

They were all booked under sections 114, 147, 148, 177, 294 (b), 386, 427, 452 and 506 (ii) of the Indian Penal Code and 4 of the Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Harassment of Women (TNPHW) Act.

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Ellen Hospital managing director Ramachandran had leased his hospital building to Dr Umashankar of Chennai in 2017 and the hospital name was renamed as Chennai Hospital. However, a group of goons upon the direction of Dr Ramachandran had entered the hospital and took over the building's control by sending hired goons. They had also removed the board of the hospital and had fixed a new board in the name of Ellen Hospital. 

Dr Umashankar, who ran the Chennai Hospitals on Sathyamangalam Road in Coimbatore was killed by a speeding car at Kannappa Nagar where he had come to leave his car at a service centre. The doctor was standing on the roadside in front of a bakery when a speeding car knocked him down, subsequently causing his death. 

The CB-CID police will file a counter reply against the petition filed by Advocate SP Rajendran, who was also involved in the case and who filed an anticipatory bail petition before the Madras high court on Wednesday. His petition will come up for hearing on Friday.

The Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) court heard testimony from the hired goons on Wednesday evening, and the CJM remanded them in judicial custody. They were lodged at the Coimbatore central prison, TOI reports.