Absconding MP Anant Hegde gets anticipatory bail
03:27AM Fri 20 Jan, 2017
KARWAR: BJP MP from Uttara Kannada Anant Kumar Hegde, who had allegedly assaulted two doctors and a paramedical staffer at TSS Hospital on January 3, was granted anticipatory bail on Thursday.
Anant Kumar was absconding after assaulting the doctors, charging them with delaying attending to his mother Lalita Hegde, who was hospitalized with multiple fractures in her leg and hips.
Anant Kumar alleged that she was made to wait for more than three hours in a gurney. The enraged MP had dragged the doctors out of a room and thrashed them.
Sirsi Market Yard police registered a suo motu case against the MP for assaulting the doctors and causing them grievous injuries.
It was alleged that G V Madhukeshwar, Balachandra Bhat and hospital staff Rahul Musharkar had suffered deep cuts on their throats, heads and faces.
Members of the Indian Medical Association had alleged that the MP had beaten up the medical staff without any provocation, despite the fact that they had attended to Lalita Hegde, but the MP had failed to verify the facts.
Neither the doctors nor the hospital management had agreed to file a complaint against the MP. But the IMA pressured the government and after the intervention of the home minister, Sirsi police filed a suo motu case against the MP and Krishna Esale, district general secretary of BJP.
The IMA alleged that the MP was not absconding and police had just failed to arrest him. On Thursday, the first additional district and session's court in Sirsi granted anticipatory bail to Anant Kumar, imposing conditions.
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