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This is an archive article published on October 30, 1998
Doctor8217;s discharge plea turned down
NEW DELHI, October 29: A delhi court today rejected the discharge application of an All India Institute of Medical Sciences AIIMS docto...
NEW DELHI, October 29: A delhi court today rejected the discharge application of an All India Institute of Medical Sciences AIIMS doctor, in a case relating to the forging of certain official documents.
While rejecting the plea of Dr Rakesh Tandon, head of the department of gastroenterology, Metropolitan magistrate MM Raj Rani Mitra fixed March 24 for hearing pre-charge evidence in the case.
In 1996, gastroenterologist Anoop Saraya filed a case against Tandon and former AIIMS director S.K. Kacker for having 8220;8230;forged official records to cause unlawful loss to the complainant8230;manipulated records in a manner whereby the complainant who was duly selected by the selection committee for appointment to the post of Assistant Professor, Gastroenterology, and placed no. 1 on the waiting list was deprived of the appointment8221;.
Saraya had appeared for the interview on July 20, 1993. There were two posts for Assistant Professor, for which the selection committee had recommended the names of Dr S. Desarthy and Dr Gagan Sood. Saraya8217;s was the first name on the waiting list. In his complaint Saraya alleged that Tandon knew that Sood had left for the USA, hence there was no possibility of his joining the department. Saraya alleged that Kacker 8220;8230; forged the original record and interpolated the name of Dr Deepak Lahoti8221;.
A prima-facie case was made against the two under Sections 465 forgery, 418 cheating with knowledge that wrongful loss may ensue to person whose interest offender is bound to protect, 471 using as genuine a forged document, read with Sections 34 common intention and 120-B criminal conspiracy of the Indian Penal Code.
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