Mystery clouds case of missing doc

Jurisdictional conflict between two police stations may have stalled a probe into the causes of a doctor’s disappearance and his subsequent surfacing in an unconscious state, two days later.

The senior doctor in question headed the Nuclear Medicine Department at Kidwai Institute of Oncology. He went missing for two days last week and was later found, unconscious. He has been in an unconscious and critical state at the Intensive Care Unit of NIMHANS for the last three days. The police is yet to probe into what really happened to him.

Dr Parameshwar, 59, went out to see a dentist last Saturday. When he didn’t return even after 11:30 pm, his worried wife filed a missing complaint at the Rajajinagar police station.

The doctor, found lying unconscious in Vijayanagar, was shifted to Victoria hospital by the Vijayanagar police and then to NIMHANS. Thereafter, the case hit a dead end. The doctor is yet to regain consciousness. NIMHANS sources say he has sustained severe brain contusion and also has a lung infection.

Despite the medico-legal nature of the case, there has been no investigation. Instead, police in the Rajajinagar and Vijayanagar stations are placing the onus on each other.

The Rajajinagar police closed the missing case filed by the doctor’s wife because he was traced. The Vijaynagar police, in whose jurisdictional limits the doctor was found with grevious injuries, haven’t even registered a case. The police said they couldn’t act until the doctor regained consciousness. Sources said it took Vijayanagar police two days to identify him.

Speculation is rife about what could have happened to the doctor. The Kidwai hospital sources say, the drug administered by a dentist might have caused giddiness and an accident. It could also have been a case of hit and run, which would need a thorough investigation. Doctor’s wife Janet said she hadn’t yet pondered over the investigation part.

A top police official said it was the responsibility of the Rajajinagar police to conduct further investigation into the case.