Jammu hospitals check doctors' lockers amid white-terror module probe
Srinagar: Amid the ongoing investigation into the white-terror module, the Government Medical College (GMC) and Sri Maharaja Gulab Singh (SMGS) hospitals in Jammu have begun checking lockers belonging to staff, students and doctors, officials said.
The move follows the discovery that some doctors were allegedly involved in a major terror module and the subsequent car blast near the Red Fort in Delhi on November 10, and the recovery of arms and ammunition, including an AK rifle, from the locker of a doctor at GMC Anantnag on November 8.
“We are conducting a check of all the lockers as part of a routine exercise. We have sought keys from the locker holders. They will be checked and re-allotted,” Principal of Government Medical College, Dr Ashutosh Gupta, told PTI.
“This is part of a routine exercise. We maintain a logbook of the lockers. It is to maintain transparency,” he said.
Similar locker checkups are being conducted at the SMGS hospital in Jammu, they said.
Authorities have already conducted this exercise at the Government Medical College and SMHS Hospital, Srinagar, to identify and label their personal lockers last week, reports PTI.
The circular issued by the Administrator, Associated Hospitals, Srinagar, came in the wake of the Anantnag recovery.
Medical Dialogues recently reported that five more doctors from Kashmir, currently working at hospitals in Saharanpur, Deoband, and Shamli districts of Uttar Pradesh, have been detained for questioning by the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS). The doctors are suspected of having links with a doctor arrested earlier for his alleged involvement with the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) module uncovered in Faridabad. According to the ATS officials, the detained doctors are employed at private medical facilities in the three west UP districts, and their names have not been revealed.
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