Probe ordered into arrest of Chennai prof by Lucknow police

Pathikrit Chakraborty

Lucknow TNN





A probe has been ordered into arrest of a senior Madras Medical College professor Dr M Sudheer, who is now lodged in Lucknow jail.

The probe was ordered by DIG Range Lucknow, Pravin Kumar Tripathi in view of Tamil Nadu government doctors' association going on strike in Chennai demanding a fair probe .

The doctors have been on indefinite strike after the arrest of M Sudheer by the Lucknow police in a money laun dering case. The kin of the doctor met the DIG here on Wednesday .

SSP Lucknow Manzil Saini said she had told TransGomti SP Durgesh Kumar to conduct another inquiry and that she would speak to the investigating officer of Aliganj police station. “If anybody is found guilty , action will be taken against the policeman concerned,“ she told TOI. She did not comment when TOI asked her why the FIR was registered in Aliganj police station.SSP said some policemen had picked up the doctor without consulting any senior official.

Dr M Sudheer (57), resi dent of TTK Salai, Alwarpet, Chennai, is a professor of orthopaedics at the Institute of Orthopaedics and Traumatology of the Madras Medical College. In 2011, he had borrowed `20 lakh from a local money-lender M Kamraj for building a house at interest rate of 5 % per annum.

The lender had taken some blank cheques signed by the doctor as security but did not return them even after total repayment of loan in 2016. More over, the lender implicated the professor and stated wrongly that he had lent `40 lakh. The lender threatened professor, who lodged an FIR registered against M Kamraj at Tenyamet police station in Chennai, on May 12, 2016. The moneylender remained unfazed and continued to demand more cash and transferred the blank cheques to his aides in Uttar Pradesh, Sarfaraz Ahmad, Piyush Mishra and Sachin Tandon. His UP counterparts manipulated the blank cheques and filed a case against the doctor at Aliganj, police station of Lucknow.