Daijiworld Media Network- Karwar (RJP)
Karwar, Jan 8: Police have formed two teams to arrest Uttara Kannada Member of Parliament Ananthkumar Hegde, for assaulting doctors on duty in a private hospital on January 3.
The police on Thursday had registered a Suo Moto case against Hegde and BJP district unit secretary Krishna Esale on the charge of assaulting doctors 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.
Deputy Superintendent of police Nagesh Shetty said that police were collecting information about the whereabouts of Ananthkumar Hegde.
Meanwhile private doctors in Uttara Kannada district suspended their services for three hours on Saturday as a mark of protest against the assault on doctors by Ananthkumar Hegde.