Managing Director of Ellen Hospital, four others arrested for ransacking Chennai Hospital
The CB-CID might also take action against a few police officers for behaving like mute spectators when a group of goons forcibly sent out the inpatients and staff members of the Chennai Hospital.
Coimbatore: The managing director of Ellen hospital, his close associate and three other persons have been arrested by the CB-CID police who were accused of ransacking the Chennai Hospital which is located on Sathyamangalam Road in the city on December 4, 2020.
The Crime Branch -CID police, Coimbatore city, subsequently filed a petition before the chief judicial magistrate (CJM) court on Tuesday morning to take the accused under police custody.
The Times of India reports that the four were arrested for forcibly sending out inpatients and staff members of Chennai Hospital in Coimbatore and ransacking the hospital.
The police sought custody for seven days, following which the petition would come up for hearing on Wednesday.
The CB-CID might also take action against a few police officers for behaving like mute spectators when a group of goons forcibly sent out the inpatients and staff members of the Chennai Hospital.
The Times of India reports that the accused had also earlier filed a fake complaint with police against the managing director of Chennai Hospital, Dr Umashankar and its manager Maruthavanan. Section 177 of the Indian Penal Code was also invoked against was also invoked against Dr Ramachandran.
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, reports TOI.
Subsequently, Dr Ramachandran filed a cheating complaint against Dr Umashankar and manager Maruthavanan with the city crime branch (CCB) police following which the police had registered a case and arrested the duo. Another FIR was registered the same day against Dr Umashankar and Maruthavanan by Rathinapuri police in Coimbatore city for taking over the control of the hospital building by sending the hired goons. Both the cases were transferred to the CB-CID of Coimbatore city.
However, when the police took up the case registered by the Rathinapuri police, they got to know that it was a false complaint and Dr Ramachandran had instead sent the gang to take over the control of the building.
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.
Following the doctor's death, the staff of Chennai hospital and the family members of the deceased had thronged the Coimbatore Medical College Hospital (CMCH) alleging foul play in his death, as per a media report in the Hindu.
The accused have been identified as P Ramachandran, 75, who is the managing director and Dr Kamaraj, his close associate. 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, reports the TOI. They were all lodged at the Coimbatore central prison on Monday night.
The accused were produced before the chief judicial magistrate court in the evening and were subsequently remanded in judicial custody till June 26, 2022.
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