Six doctors booked in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar for allegedly misleading family and tampering with evidence in child’s death case

A case was registered against six doctors at a private hospital in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar in Maharashtra for allegedly misleading the father of a child who died under their care, police said on Friday.

They claim the accused doctors also allegedly tampered with evidence.

According to information provided by the police, a 5-year-old child was admitted to Vedant Hospital in Sutgirni district on April 26. The boy underwent surgery at the hospital the same day.

The child died on May 6 after almost 10 days of treatment.

The boy’s father, Avinash Aghav, maintains that his son died due to poor treatment at the hospital. He also claimed that evidence was destroyed and that he was not provided with documents related to his treatment, the release said.

According to the release, the complainant accused the hospital of manipulating CCTV recordings of the facility from April 26 to 28.

It added that the doctors – Arjun Pawar, Shaikh Ilyas, Ajay Kale, Abhijit Deshmukh, Tushar Chavhan and Nitin Adhane – were booked on Wednesday for causing death due to negligence and destruction of evidence under the Indian Penal Code.

The police statement did not explain the time interval between the child’s death and the registration of a case against the doctors.