Coimbatore: The special court for essential commodities act on Tuesday ordered the city police to register a case against a lawyer,
three doctors and two more people, who forged documents and produced them before the court to get conditional bail for an accused.
Kattoor police had arrested D Joy Immanuel, a native of Bengaluru, Mohammed Shikas of Saibaba Colony, Jilbykhan Ali of Kuniyamuthur and Mohammed Anaf of Ukkadam on July 24 for supplying opioids to some people in Coimbatore. The city police also seized six bottles (each 2ml) of pethidine hydrochloride and four bottles (each 2ml) of diazepam from the gang.
Meanwhile, Zackaria, the advocate who appeared on behalf of Mohammed Shikas, filed a petition seeking conditional bail. The petition said that Shikas was an epilepsy patient, whose marriage has been fixed. The lawyer submitted certificates from a doctor and a marriage invitation to prove his claims.
However, judge C Sanjay Baba suspected the originality of the documents and ordered the Coimbatore Medical College and Hospital (CMCH) dean Ashokan and police to check their veracity.
The dean’s report said that doctor Ramakrishnan, who owned a clinic at Siddhapudur, CMCH doctors Usha and Mansoor, CMCH office assistant Beer Mohammed and Shika’s elder brother had forged the medical documents. Police confirmed that the marriage invitation submitted before the court was fake.
When the case came up for hearing on Tuesday, the judge ordered the police to register a case against the lawyer, three doctors, CMCH office assistant and elder brother of Shikas.
