In another major development amid the ongoing investigation into a fraud case linked to the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana-Mukhya Mantri Amrutam (PMJAY-MA) at a reputed hospital in Ahmedabad, the Ahmedabad City Police Crime Branch (DCB) said on Saturday. Finally, the fugitive director of the hospital, Rajshree Pradeep Kothari, has been arrested.
A total of nine accused have been booked in three FIRs for culpable homicide not amounting to murder in a fraud case following the death of two PMJAY-MA beneficiaries after they allegedly underwent angioplasty at the hospital without informed consent.
The crime branch, which had already arrested seven of the nine accused, succeeded in arresting Kothari 31 days after filing one case on behalf of the state government and three on behalf of the deceased patient’s family, Mahesh Girdhar Barot (52). ) and in Nagar Moti Sen (75).
At the beginning of this month, Dr. Sanjay Mulji Patolia, a bariatric surgeon and the owner of the company that runs the Khyati Multispeciality Hospital, was arrested. Doctor Patolia, who was in police custody for seven days, was sent to judicial custody on Thursday.
Ahmedabad Bariatrics and Cosmetics Pvt Ltd Chairman Karthik Jasu Patel is absconding. It is suspected that he is in another country.
The crime branch said on Saturday that after learning that 59-year-old Kothari has relatives in the neighboring state, a team has been sent to Rajasthan to search for him.
On her address, the DCB statement said that on November 13, when three FIRs were registered, Rajshri and her husband Pradeep Kothari left for Udaipur, Rajasthan in an SUV. After staying there for five days, they went to Bhilwara. After staying in Bhilwara for 10 days, they went to Kota. After 15 days in Kota, they again left for Bhilwara where the couple was arrested in the middle of the journey.
On what was learned from the preliminary interrogation of the accused, the DCB statement underlined that her husband Pradeep Kothari and another accused Chirag Rajput had earlier worked together when they had leased the Asian Bariatrics Hospital from the previous owners and ran it as a Covid hospital. During the pandemic.
Dr. Sanjay Patolia is one of the founders of Asian Bariatrics Hospital. Another of his partners, Dr. Mahendra Narwaria, exited the venture in 2021, thereby renaming it to Khyati Multispeciality Hospital, Karthik Patel became a major investor in the holding company Ahmedabad Bariatrics and Cosmetics Pvt.
Rajshri’s husband Pradeep Kothari, Chirag Rajput and Dr Sanjay Patolia have stakes in the new business, officials said.
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