Taking serious exception to the conduct of Dr. Anand, a consultant plastic surgeon at Mallya hospital, who has issued the ‘discharge summary’ of victim Vidvat L., the High Court said that ‘the doctor appears to have exceeded his limits’.
The source from where MLA N.A. Haris accessed the ‘discharge summary’ can be ignored, but “the way the discharge summary is written [by Dr. Anand] cannot be ignored. Especially, the sentence 'no untoward incident took place'...,” the court said in its order.
"It is very pertinent to mention here that the very same doctor goes to the extent of giving a statement about the fitness of Vidvat. He has also given a statement that Vidvat has been tutored to delay giving a statement to the police. If these statements of a doctor are taken into consideration, obliviously a question arises as to what is the interest that he has, in giving these statements? Is he expected to give such statements? The discharge summary shows that 3-4 doctors attended to the patient. When those doctors kept quiet, why Dr. Anand showed interest in giving statements and writing something in his discharge summary which is not expected to find a place in it,” the court said.
"All these events only show that the doctor might have been under the influence of the petitioner or his men. This is one way of tampering with evidence," said the court.
The prosecution had alleged that Dr. Anand is related to a close political associate of the MLA.
