A three-member committee has been established by the Maharashtra government in response to the arrest of two doctors and an employee from Sassoon General Hospital in Pune. The committee will investigate the alleged manipulation of the blood sample of the juvenile driver involved in the Porsche car crash. Dr Pallavi Sapale, the dean of Grant Medical College and J J group of hospitals, has been appointed as the chairperson of the committee by Medical Education Commissioner Rajiv Nivatkar.
The other members of the committee are Dr Gajanan Chavan, a professor from the forensic medicine department of Grant Medical College, and Dr Sudhir Chowdhary, the Special Duty Officer at Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar Government Medical College and Super Speciality Hospital. The committee has been instructed to visit Pune on Tuesday. Additionally, Dr Vinayak Kale, the Dean of Sassoon General Hospital, has been directed to cooperate with the committee during the investigation.
Dr Ajay Taware, the head of the Sassoon Hospital’s Forensic Medicine department, Dr Shrihari Halnor, the chief medical officer, and Atul Ghatkamble, a staff member working under Dr Taware, have been arrested by the Pune Police and are currently in police custody until May 30th.