Dinesh Patil, a 27-year-old aspiring constable whose ankle was broken while participating in the ongoing police recruitment drive at Kalina, was discharged from VN Desai hospital on Friday after being informed he would only be able to go under the knife after 10 days due to the long waiting list. Patil, who hails from Nandurbar, told mid-day that he didn’t receive any treatment and the doctors didn’t care if he lived or died.

On Friday, Patil's father Kailash, a farmhand, who earns Rs 200 per day, arranged for Rs 20,000 from his fellow villagers and booked an ambulance to get his son admitted to a Dhule-based hospital for further treatment.