Chennai: A woman doctor, who tried to kill her 82-year-old father – a heart patient on medical support in an ICU, by pulling the plug after getting his thumb impression on a set of papers, was caught on a CCTV camera. Chennai police have charge sheeted a case against the woman.
According to the reports in TOI, though the incident happened in September 2015 and her father had died two months later, the charge sheet was only filed recently, booking Dr. Jayasudha Manoharan for an attempt to murder. The man’s son, also a doctor, filed a complaint soon after the incident and FIR was filed only in January 2016.
The shocking CCTV footage shows the woman visiting her father along with her two sons at her brother Dr. R Jayaprakash’s Aditya Hospital in Kilpauk, Chennai. After getting the nurses to vacate the room and later obtaining her father’s thumb impression, she removes the line delivering life-saving medicines through a vein in the neck. The CCTV footage also shows blood trickling down onto the hospital floor. As nurses and a doctor rush in, she rushes out, with the hospital staff running behind her.
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In February 2016, Dr. Jayaprakash had lodged a complaint with the Tamil Nadu State Medical Council alleging that Dr. Jayasudha, her husband, and their son tried to kill his father Dr. E Rajagopal. He also demanded that they are removed from the medical rolls (Dr. Jayasudha’s family owns Manoharan Hospital in R S Puram, Coimbatore).
Police initially filed cases of trespassing, extortion, and criminal intimidation against the family, but later altered them to attempt to murder in the charge sheet. According to sources, the police had recorded Dr. Rajagopal’s statement a few days after the incident in the ICU, which would be crucial to the investigation.
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