Surat Municipal Company (SMC) is planning to file a defamation case towards house owners of a hospital that had put the title of Municipal Commissioner Shalini Agrawal on an invite card, mentioning her because the chief visitor for the inaugural operate, allegedly with out her consent.
A day after it was inaugurated on Sunday, Janseva Multispeciality hospital was sealed by the Surat hearth division on the grounds that the premises neither had a fireplace NOC (no-objection certificates) nor any hearth security gear in working situation.
On Thursday night, SMC’s Udhna Zone Chief Gajendra Chauhan handed an utility to Surat Police to register an offence towards hospital authorities for placing the title of Agrawal within the invitation card.
Nonetheless, police advised Chauhan that no legal case might be made towards the accused primarily based on the applying, advising him to file a defamation case.
Pandesara police inspector H M Gadhvi mentioned, “We’ve got taken solutions from authorized advisers and prime police officers and located that, on the premise of the applying, there is no such thing as a legal case which may be made towards the accused. We’ve got suggested the complainant that they’ve just one choice left and that’s to lodge a defamation case.”
Speaking to The Indian Categorical, Chauhan mentioned, “Going by the directions of the municipal commissioner, now we have handed the applying to the Pandesara police station. The hospital authorities had not taken written or oral consent of the municipal commissioner earlier than placing her title within the invitation card. Police officers instructed that we should always proceed with a defamation criticism, which we might do after taking the consent of the Municipal Commissioner.”
In the meantime, on Friday afternoon, Chief District Well being Officer Dr Anil Patel and his crew visited the hospital premises, the place they’d known as the house owners to furnish related certificates. Nonetheless, the house owners didn’t flip up. “We are going to stick a discover on the hospital, instructing the house owners to stay current on the district well being workplace with essential medical diploma certificates. In the event that they fail to take action in 5 days, we’ll take strict actions towards them. As soon as we get their certificates, we’ll confirm them,” mentioned Dr Patel.
Constructed on the premises of a defunct theatre, Janseva hospital was inaugurated in Bamroli on Sunday. 4 folks – Dr B R Shukla, Dr G P Mishra, Dr R Okay Dubey, and retired police sub inspector Pramod Tiwari — are joint companions on the hospital.
Whereas, Dr Shukla and Dr Dubey have been arrested by Surat police final month for operating a dispensary with out eligible levels, three instances underneath prohibition act have been registered towards Dr Mishra with Surat and Navsari Police in 2020. All of them are presently out on bail.
Notably, earlier than the inauguration, the hospital had despatched out an invite card containing the names of Municipal Commissioner Agrawal as Chief Visitor and Surat Police Commissioner Anupam Singh Gahlaut together with Joint Police Commissioner, Visitors and Crime, Raghvendra Vatsa as company of honour.
Whereas Vatsa attended the occasion, Gahlaut and Agrawal gave it a miss.
Sources mentioned the hospital house owners had taken the outdated theatre on lease final month and renovated it into the Janseva hospital.
