Over three weeks after two PMJAY beneficiaries died following alleged pointless angioplasty, Dr Sanjay Mulji Patolia, Bariatric Surgeon and one of many administrators of the corporate that runs Khyati Multispeciality Hospital the place the surgical procedure was carried out, was arrested by the Ahmedabad Metropolis Police’s Detection of Crime Department (DCB) on Wednesday.
In keeping with the Crime Department, that they had obtained info that Dr Patolia was about to be within the neighborhood of Silver Oak Engineering School in Gota space of Ahmedabad they usually apprehended him from there. He will likely be produced earlier than a courtroom on Thursday.
Dr Patolia has been evading police since November 13, when he, together with 4 of his companions and later, 4 workers, have been booked in three separate FIRs for culpable murder not amounting to homicide and different severe crimes within the suspected racket they have been allegedly operating by way of abuse of the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana — Mukhyamantri Amrutam (PMJAY-MA) scheme.
In keeping with the Crime Department assertion, Dr Patolia was answerable for taking all choices associated to medical remedy of sufferers. On November 12, a gaggle of villagers from Borisana in Mehsana vandalised Khyati Hospital following the deaths of Mahesh Girdhar Barot and Nagar Moti Senma, who have been amongst seven PMJAY beneficiaries on whom the hospital performed the surgical procedures.
The Crime Department mentioned, “On November 12, he (Dr Patolia) headed to New Life Hospital in Rajkot, which he had based in 2006. On November 13 night time, when he realised three FIRs had been filed towards him, he left his SUV alongside together with his telephone, which was switched off, behind and took a bus to Udaipur.” November 15 onwards, the assertion additional mentioned, Dr Patolia travelled to totally different cities, together with Nathdwara, Ajmer, Pali, Jaipur, and Delhi, earlier than coming again to Ahmedabad.
