Court rejects CBI plea for AIIMS medical board examination of Avinash Bhosale

A special court on Wednesday rejected a CBI plea seeking constitution of a medical board by New Delhis All India Institute of Medical Sciences AIIMS to assess the health of builder Avinash Bhosale an accused in the Yes BankDHFL loan fraud case who is currently under judicial custody and hospitalizedBhosale was arrested on May 26 last year by the Central Bureau of Investigation CBI and the Enforcement Directorate ED later took his custody in a money laundering case The Punebased real estate developer is in judicial custody and admitted in a Mumbai hospital since OctoberSpecial PMLA Prevention of Money Laundering Act court Judge MG Deshpande while rejecting the probe agencys plea directed the staterun JJ Hospital and doctors to immediately conduct various medical tests on the accusedThe court asked the hospital to finish Bhosales medical tests within three days from the date of receipt of this order by and thereafter immediately discharge him to resume jail custodyThe judge said the hospital and doctors shall further fix the proposed schedule of the treatment care to be followed and taken by the accused in jail so that his hospitalization is not required againThe doctors shall clearly suggest a schedule for precautions care and food to be taken by Bhosale in jail in order to continue his judicial custody it saidThe court said the Dean of J J Group of Hospitals and the doctors shall also prescribe him proper medication and follow ups if anyIn its plea the CBI had prayed to the court to direct the AIIMS New Delhi to constitute a medical board to examine the accused The central agency had raised doubts over the illness and hospitalization of BhosaleThe probe agency had claimed the opinion given by doctors at J J Hospital and its medical board was managed for adjusting further hospitalization of the accusedAlso Read Air India peegate Shankar Mishra moves bail in Sessions CourtHowever the court said it couldnt give direction to any government medical authorities beyond its jurisdiction completely ignoring or prejudging that the report filed by a medical board headed by the JJ Hospital dean is fake incorrect and given by favouring the accusedPrima facie there is nothing to point out any contrary to the said report of the medical board except bare allegations made by the CBI the court saidThe judge noted that just a day before the filing of the application on January 11 the court on its own referred some points to the ED probing a related case regarding health issues of the realtorIt is therefore clear the court itself took notice of the long hospitalization and illness of Bhosale and found it necessary to seek a report from the JJ Hospital dean the special judge saidAs per the CBI Bhosale an autorickshaw driverturned realtor allegedly received kickbacks of more than Rs 360 crore as middleman for facilitating loans from DHFL Dewan Housing Finance Corporation which turned into nonperforming assets NPAsThe CBI has said it found two payments of Rs 688 crore and Rs 292 crore to Bhosales companies made by Radius Developers whose owner Sanjay Chhabaria was recently arrested in the caseThe central agency after the arrest of Bhosale had said Yes Bank under its cofounder Rana Kapoor had disbursed Rs 3983 crore to DHFL which were proceeds of crimeThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever