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Medical reports of PSEB
chairman’s sons changed in three hours
WSN Network
FARIDKOT: In a nut
shell, this story is alone illustrative of what the trappings of
powers can do. Not only can they prevent any injury to your
reputation, at times the fact that your Daddy is a 'power'-full man
can help you come up with fresh, inexplicable injuries. A whole 19
of them.
On the face of it,
it is a simple story. Punjab State Electricity Board Chairman H S
Brar’s two sons got into a scuffle with a policeman who wanted them
to move their vehicle parked wrongly in the road. They bashed up the
policeman, took out a revolver, brnadished it.
When a senior
police officer came there, he took both of them away and releasd
them. Later, under pressure from people and mediamen, the two had to
be arrested and presented before a magistrate.
When they were
remanded to judicial custody for 14 days, they again managed to
avoid a trip to jail. But how they did that involved a tale so
hilarious that it can happen only in India.
Their medico-legal
reports (MLRs) were changed within three hours, in an apparent bid
to facilitate their stay in hospital.
Before presenting
Dapinder Singh and Amaninder Singh in the court of Judicial
Magistrate First Class Sangeetapal Singh last Wednesday, the local
police had submitted a request to the medical officer of
Guru
Gobind
Singh
Medical
College,
asking for an MLR of the two. The report drafted at
3.02 pm and signed by Dr A S Thind said Dapinder had fresh
injury marks (not specified) on his body, while Amaninder was normal
and had no injuries.
After the court
pronounced its order, sending the two to 14 days’ judicial remand,
the accused moved an application, requesting for another MLR. The
police took them back to the hospital around
6.45 pm. The new report prepared by the same doctor said
Dapinder had five injury marks and that he complained of pain in
various parts of his body.
The MLR recommended
an X-ray and admission in the hospital. Interestingly, Amaninder,
who was “normal” around threee hours ago, had 23 injuries in the new
report, of these 19 were “blueish” abrasions”.
The MLR said he,
too, complained of pain and hence an X-ray was recommended, blocking
his way to the jail.
No police officer
wished to come on record as to how Amaninder, who was “normal” till
3 pm received “23 injuries” in the next three hours’ time, that too
when he was in custody of the police.
The injury drama
had to be enacted as the two were hoping to be set free since police
did not press for police remand of the accused, but that did not
happen.
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December 2009
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