Porsche Crash Case: 14 calls between Forensic Head of Sassoon Hospital, teen's father for swapping blood sample
Pune: The Head of the Forensic Medicine Department of Pune-based Sassoon Hospital arrested in connection with the alleged manipulation of the blood sample of the teen driver involved in the Porsche car crash case has made a shocking confession to the police.
During the interrogation, he threatened to disclose more names connected to the case. He stated that he would not remain silent and would expose the identities of all individuals involved.
The police officials informed on Tuesday that before the sample collection, 14 calls were exchanged between the Head of the Forensic Medicine Department and the teen's father.
As per the Times Now sources, the doctor reportedly said, "Mai chup nahi baithunga, sabka naam bahar aaega." Further, the police noticed the doctor getting a call from a person who identified himself as the public representative. The cops are in the process of determining the identity of the public representative.
Meanwhile, the police revealed that the father of the accused teen driver in the case had made a total of 14 calls to Dr ***, head of the Sassoon Hospital’s forensic medicine department within two hours before the blood sample collection of the minor. It is suspected that they discussed the change of blood sample during the call, Opindia reports.
Medical Dialogues team had reported that two doctors of Sassoon Hospital were arrested for allegedly discarding the blood samples of the 17-year-old boy suspect accused of murdering two software engineers and replacing them with another person's samples.
The two doctors accused of tampering with the blood sample reports include the head of the Forensic Medicine department of Sassoon General Hospital and the chief medical officer of the Sassoon Hospital.
During the investigation, it was revealed that the Chief Medical Officer reportedly replaced the blood samples on the direction of the HOD on 19th May at around 11 am. The CMO allegedly threw the blood samples in a dustbin of the hospital and sent the blood samples of another person to the forensic lab. As a result, the report showed no alcohol traces of the accused.
After the case had been transferred to the crime branch, it was found that the third accused arrested in the case was the peon of Sassoon General Hospital who allegedly received a bribe of Rs 3 lakh. He was acting as a middleman for the two senior doctors.
The agency found that the peon was working under the accused HOD of the forensic department of Sassoon Hospital. He had been accused of taking the bribe in place of the doctors. It was revealed that Rs 50,000 was seized from the peon, while Rs 2.5 lakh was from the Chief Medical Officer. However, no amount was recovered from the HOD.
After their arrest, the MMC took disciplinary action against the duo and served them notices seeking an explanation for their alleged involvement in the case within seven days.
Meanwhile, the Directorate of Medical Education and Research (DMER) has set up a three-member committee to investigate the alleged involvement of the two doctors in the case.
