Evidence to establish who tampered report in Mahajan case: Police

New Delhi, June 20 (UNI) Police today said they have clinching evidence to establish who all were involved in the tampering of reports in the Rahul Mahajan drug overdose case and at whose stance.

''We have been able to establish who all had tampered with the evidence and the reports before the police was informed, with a delay of nearly two hours, of the incidence involving Rahul Mahajan's drug overdose and which resulted in the death of Bibek Moitra,'' said a senior officer involved in the investigations.

During ''our questioning it was also established that there was a delay by the hospital staff in passing of the information to the police. ''The medico-legal certificate (MLC) was not prepared before us, which was the norm, but between themselves.'' ''Also, the treatment given to Rahul Mahajan could have been given outside the ICU, as it wasn't all that serious, and helped us in talking to him which was denied to us. This shows that there was something for them to hide'', the officer said.

They did not have answer to several specifics -- like if admission to the ICU was required due to seriousness of the patient how come their own lab reports gave 'negative' results -- raised by the interrogation team, he added.

The officer also informed that the police team would question the lady staffers of the hospital tomorrow, including Raji Chandru -- a close aide of Pratap Reddy, Chairman of the Apollo chain of hospitals.

Meanwhile, emerging from the over nine-hour questioning doctors denied reports that they were being harrassed or being subject to mental torture by the police, as stated by their lawyer Lalit Bhasin earlier in the day.

Earlier, police today summoned three senior doctors of the Apollo Hospital, including its medical director, in connection with the alleged fudging of medical reports of Rahul Mahajan when he was admitted there early this month with symptoms of drug overdose.

Those questioned included Dr Prasad Rao, head of the medical team which looked into the whole affair after Rahul Mahajan was admitted to the hospital, Dr Anupam Sibal, medical director of Apollo and Dr Mukund Pandey, a senior member of the hospital's core team.

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