Police set to ask medical body to cancel licence of Tughlaqabad Extn clinic

Three weeks after the Delhi Police arrested the proprietor of a south Delhi medical centre and his three employees over allegations of death by negligence, investigations revealed that one of his employees who posed as a doctor but was only a Class 12 graduate-owns a hospital in Tughlakabad Extension.

- Hemani Bhandari

A senior police officer, who did asked not to be named, told HT: "Mahender Singh, who was arrested in the case of Agarwal Medical Centre in Greater Kailash-I owns the New Ganga hospital in Tughlakabad Extension. He had sought a medical licence from the Delhi Medical Council (DMC) in the name of a doctor who is an ex-serviceman."

A second investigator told HT that Singh had allegedly hidden an instrument, which was used to perform a laparoscopy on a patient at the GK-I hospital, at the New Ganga hospital. "Singh had performed a laparoscopy on a patient, Asgar Ali, in 2022 at the GK-I hospital, who died. So, Singh hid the instrument at the hospital he owns," said the second investigator.