Bikram S Majithia says people faith shaken by CS order giving case back from Vigilance to Amritsar police
Asks CM to intervene to bring guilty to book including mgt of Tuli Lab and EMC hospital)
Chandigarh, (Aditi) – The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) today demanded an independent inquiry by a central agency or a sitting judge of the Punjab and Haryana high court into the fake COVD-19 reports’ scam, saying the latest order from the State chief secretary taking back the inquiry from the Vigilance department and entrusting it to the Amritsar police had shaken the faith of the people in the Congress government.
In a statement here, former minister Bikram Singh Majithia said it was shocking that concerted efforts were being made by Congressmen to save Tuli Diagnostic Centre and EMC hospital which had conducted a crime against humanity by declaring COVID-19 negative patients as positive and kept them with COVID positive patients at isolation centres with the sole purpose of extorting lakhs of rupees from them.
“This criminal act has sent shockwaves among the people of Amritsar who were expecting exemplary action against those guilty for this horrendous deed. The Vigilance department was entrusted with the inquiry after Amritsar police failed to make any headway in the case due to political pressure”. He said an attempt to murder case was registered against the owners of Tuli Diagnoistic Centre and two technicians associated with it besides a fraud case against the owner as well as a doctor of EMC hospital. He said civil society was shocked that instead of taking the case to its logical conclusion an effort was being made to dilute it and give the guilty a clean chit. “This is being done at the behest of Congress leaders who have all along provided political shelter to the owners of Tuli lab and EMC hospital and not allowed any arrest in the case till now”.
Mr Bikram Majithia said the about turn in the case occurred after EMC hospital owner Pankaj Soni held a meeting with high level officers two days back. He said Sandeep Bawa Sandhu, an OSD to the chief minister, also played a big role in this reverse turn in the investigations besides acting as a sales person for Tuli laboratory.
Asking chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh to intervene in the matter, Mr Majithia said the suffering caused to innocent victims by Tuli Lab and EMC hospital were unimaginable and they should not be let off under any circumstances. He said a nine month pregnant woman – Dr Anam Khullar was wrongfully shown COVID-19 positive by Tuli Lab and kept in an isolation ward with positive patients endangering her life. He said subsequently two tests by the Guru Nanak Medical College lab proved she was COVID negative. He said in another case Preeti Dutta was kept wrongly with COVID patients after a false report prepared by Tuli Lab. He said two members of the Taneja family from England were also admitted in EMC hospital after being handed out false reports.
The SAD leader said while these three cases were documented by the Vigilance department, it seemed that Tuli Lab and EMC hospital were working in tandem to extort lakhs of rupees from unsuspecting innocent persons by depicting them as COVID positive. “We will not allow these criminals to escape the long arm of the law and will take necessary steps in league with civil society to bring them to book”, Mr Majithia added