Daijiworld Media Network-Karwar (RJP)
Karwar, Jan 7: BJP MP from Karwar Ananthkumar Hegde, who was caught on camera thrashing doctors of a private hospital, has been booked.
The police registered a suo moto case against Ananth Kumar Hegde and his aide Krishna Esale, BJP district unit general secretary, for assaulting doctors.
In a CCTV video, Ananthkumar Hegde and Esale were seen assaulting doctors on January 3, alleging that they were not taking proper care of Hegde’s mother admitted in the hospital.
The video which went viral attracted national attention. But no case was registered by police as no one complained to them.
The police registered the case after examining the CCTV footage and the statement of the assaulted doctors.
A case has been registered under the provisions of the Karnataka Prohibition of Violence Against Medical Service Personnel and Damage to Property In Medicare Service Institutions Act, 2009, and Indian Penal Code sections 34, 341, 323 and 504.