New Delhi, May 5, 2008 – Six doctors of Indraprastha Apollo hospital was filed a plea in Supreme Court requesting to be not made a party in the Rahul Mahajan drug abuse case, but on Monday the Supreme Court  quashed the plea and Court  made it clear that it was not in favour of annulling the FIR filed by Delhi Police and hence the doctors along with others accused in the case will have to face trail for tampering crucial evidence.

The doctors - Anupam Sibal, Prasad Rao, Awdesh Bansal, Mukund Pamdey, Ali Mohammed Ganai and Abha Gupta – had been charge-sheeted under Section 193 and Section 177 of IPC.

Delhi Police in its charge-sheet had alleged that the doctors had played a lead role in destroying evidence and had given false information to the investigating agency.

The charge-sheet had further pointed out that the hospital registers were deliberately tampered with at the specific instructions of Apollo DGM Rajji Chandru and Pramod Mahajan`s aide Sudhanshu Mittal to conceal the actual time of admission of Rahul Mahajan and his aide Bibek Moitra.

Incidentally, senior police officials have been maintaining all along that Delhi Police has sufficient evidence to charge the doctors and other hospital executives for deliberate attempts to save the accused and destroying evidence.

The infamous case had occurred on June 3, 2006, exactly a month after Pramod Mahajan’s death, when Rahul was hospitalized after an alleged cocaine overdose along with his father’s secretary, Bibek Maitra.

While Bibek was pronounced dead on arrival, Rahul was admitted to the ICU in a very serious condition.

The hospital had initially maintained that Rahul’s toxic screen test did not reveal any narcotics in his blood and urine samples. However, the Central Forensic Sciences Laboratory found traces of heroin and cocaine in the blood samples of Rahul and Moitra.