OOPS: NIA Summons Padmashri Cardiologist after confusing his Medical Jargon to Hawala Funding

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New Delhi: A medical jargon used by Eminent Cardiologist and Padmashree Dr Upendra Kaul while texting a patient who happens to be a Kashmiri Separatist Leader, sent the National Investigation Agency (NIA) into overdrive after the sleuths mistook the jargon to be "hawala money"
In an oops moment for the National Investigation Agency (NIA), the agency summoned the cardiologist, a Padma awardee only to find out that the term "INR 2.78" used by him in the texts did not refer to Rs 2.78 - (presumed by the agency sleuths as short for Rs 2.78 crore) but actually referred to the value of blood clotting "Internationalised Normalised Ratio"
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on August 30 "examined" leading Delhi-based cardiologist and Batra Hospital Chairman Upendra Kaul in the ongoing terror funding case registered by the agency in 2017.
"Kaul was summoned as a witness. He was examined on August 30 (Friday)," said a senior NIA official requesting anonymity. According to the officer, Kaul was examined in the terror funding case on the basis of electronic evidence. The NIA's move followed an SMS exchange of the doctor with Kashmiri separatist Yasin Malik, who is in Delhi's Tihar jail in the terror funding case.
In an oops moment for the National Investigation Agency (NIA), the agency summoned the cardiologist, a Padma awardee only to find out that the term "INR 2.78" used by him in the texts did not refer to Rs 2.78 - (presumed by the agency sleuths as short for Rs 2.78 crore) but actually referred to the value of blood clotting "Internationalised Normalised Ratio"
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on August 30 "examined" leading Delhi-based cardiologist and Batra Hospital Chairman Upendra Kaul in the ongoing terror funding case registered by the agency in 2017.
"Kaul was summoned as a witness. He was examined on August 30 (Friday)," said a senior NIA official requesting anonymity. According to the officer, Kaul was examined in the terror funding case on the basis of electronic evidence. The NIA's move followed an SMS exchange of the doctor with Kashmiri separatist Yasin Malik, who is in Delhi's Tihar jail in the terror funding case.
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