Court asks police to book MLA

Court asks police to book MLA

Hyderabad Dec. 7: A city court on Friday asked police to register an ‘attempt to murder’ case against MIM MLA, Mr Afsar Khan, and 29 others for attacking a doctor of the Niloufer Hospital. The 12th Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate also asked the Nampally police to register a case against the MLA and his followers for outraging the modesty of women.
Mr N. Suresh Babu, a junior doctor of Niloufer Hospital, had filed a complaint in the court stating that the MLA and his henchmen stormed into the hospital on December 2 and attacked Dr Praveen Chander. The petitioner alleged that the MLA’s followers pushed other doctors and misbehaved with the women doctors.
He further said that that the MLA threatened to set the doctors ablaze after pouring petrol on them. The counsel for the petitioner, Mr Ramachandra Rao, told the court that the MLA’s intention was to kill the doctors since he came with 30 goons armed with knives. After hearing the arguments, the magistrate, Mr Lateef-Ur-Rehman, asked the Nampally police to register cases and investigate. Meanwhile, junior doctors of Osmania Medical College, Koti, lodged a complaint with the Sultan Bazar police over the alleged assault of the college security guards on Thursday night.
The medicos said that some unidentified people beat up the security guards on duty with stones and lathis. The injured guards were taken to Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences by the junior doctors for treatment.Police officials said that the junior doctors had not asked the Sultan Bazar police picket that was posted inside the Osmania Medical College premises for security. They said they doubted the claims of the junior doctors and that only one security guard, Haribabu, was injured.