Indian Medical Association demands judicial inquiry

Mumbai, May 26 (UNI) The Indian Medical Association's Mumbai Branch today demanded that a judicial inquiry be constituted into the brutal lathi charge on medical students in front of Raj Bhavan on May 13.

The demand was today sent to the state home minister R R Patil, following the probe conducted by city police commissioner A N Roy was ''far from truth and satisfactory'', the Ima alleged.

In a letter written to Mr Patil, IMA Mumbai Branch said, ''The whole medical fraternity today is deepy anguished and feels completely demoralised with the report of this enquiry.'' They said that the media clippings clearly showed the lathi charge, yet it is being denied. However not a single video clip was there to prove the gate crashing at Raj Bhavan, which was the reason given for initiating the lathi charge.

In Mumbai, the police had lathi charged over 300 representatives of the Youth for Equality who were staging a protest outside Rajbhavan and demanding a statement from the Prime Minister on May 13.

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