AGRA: Mainpuri police booked a local doctor on Wednesday in connection with the death of a one-year-old boy on the charges that he was denied treatment as his parents did not have ‘valid’ currency to pay.
According to the victim Kush's parents, Dr AK Jain had allegedly refused to accept payment in Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes forcing them to take away the child without treatment. Due to this, the child died on Sunday morning.
According to Mainpuri SP
Sunil K Saxena
, an FIR was registered against the doctor under section 304A (death due to negligence) based on a complaint lodged by Kush’s mother Reena Devi.
Even though police have booked the doctor, a two-member committee formed by district magistrate
Chandrapal Singh to inquire into the circumstances leading to the child's death has virtually given a clean chit to him on the grounds that Kush was taken away against the doctor's advice despite being made aware of the dangers of doing so.
Dr KK Sharma, CMO, Mainpuri, one of the members of the inquiry team, said that he has submitted the report and further action on it would be taken by the DM.
According to the victim’s father Raju, a resident of Padampur village, his son Kush was suffering from fever and was being treated by a child specialist, Dr AK Jain, in Mainpuri, on Saturday night. He said that the doctor treated his son till he had money in Rs 100 notes but once he ran out of them and had only Rs 500 left, he advised him to take Kush to a government hospital where his currency would be accepted. Raju said that with no other choice, he took his son away and Kush died shortly afterwards.