Nearly two weeks after the bodies of two women were allegedly swapped at a private hospital in Ludhiana, police named four doctors as accused in the FIR. On December 22, the body of 73-year-old Jasvir Kaur Sandhu of Moga was allegedly swapped with one Manju Diwan of Ludhiana. The family of Jasvir Kaur Sandhu filed a police complaint against Orison Super Specialty Hospital, Barewal following which an FIR was registered at Sarabha Nagar police station against management and staff of the hospital but the accused were not named.
However, Saturday, on the orders of Ludhiana police commissioner, the names of four doctors have been nominated as accused in the case, including senior gastroenterologist Dr Nirmaljeet Singh Malhi, Dr Sunil Mittal, director; Dr Rajeev Grover, director and Dr Manisha Mittal, director.
Jaswant Singh Sandhu, 72, from Guru Ramdas Nagar of Moga, had said in his complaint that his wife Jasvir Kaur Sandhu was admitted to Orison Hospital after developing a stomach related ailment. She was being treated by Dr Malhi but she died undergoing treatment on December 19. He added that since their both sons were abroad, they requested hospital authorities to keep the body in mortuary till their sons arrived for last rites. However, on December 22 when they went to collect the body in the mortuary, the fridge in which Jasvir’s body was kept, was empty.
Then hospital authorities tried to handover the body of another woman to the family but when they checked her face, it wasn’t Jasvir. Later hospital authorities admitted that Jasvir’s body was handed over to Manju’s family, and by then Manju’s family had already cremated Jasvir’s body assuming it was Manju’s.
The FIR on December 22 was registered under the sections 305, 314 and 316 (2) (criminal breach of trust) of BNS.