Doctors at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) have recommended a probe to ascertain whether someone had assisted a 26-year-old junior resident doctor from the institute, found dead earlier this month, to inject a lethal substance into his body.
Saravanan Ganeshan, who hailed from Tirupur in Tamil Nadu and was pursuing MD at AIIMS, was found dead at his rented flat in Gautam Nagar in New Delhi under mysterious circumstances on July 10. His friends, colleagues and family have been demanding a thorough probe into the matter and alleged that there was foul play behind the death.
L. Subramaniyan, who was a classmate of Saravanan at Madurai Medical College, told The Hindu that they were planning to take this up legally. “We suspect that someone did this with the intention of benefitting from Saravanan’s death. This is because he got into the MD (General Medicine) course only 10 days back after discontinuing an MD in Pathology at AIIMS.” Another batchmate, M. Kabilan said, “The important point is MD (General Medicine) seat has high demand in AIIMS and the second round of counselling for the course is coming up on July 25 for any seats falling vacant by July 19.”
However, the opinion of forensic experts has been that there is nothing suggestive of the case being anything but a suicide, said a member of the team that conducted his autopsy. “If at all someone else had injected the liquid, he must have done it in good faith and after obtaining Dr. Ganesan’s consent as there are no signs of a struggle,” said the doctor.
