Police seek more time to probe into doctor's death

The Delhi police today sought two months time from a court here to re-investigate the death of a doctor whose body was found in an ambulance parked in the nursing home of another doctor who is accused in the case.
The cops' response came on a magisterial court's earlier direction asking the Delhi Police Commissioner to submit before it the compliance report in the matter, after District Judge R K Gauba had ordered a fresh probe into the death of private practitioner Akchad Biswas.
Biswas' body was found in an ambulance in the premises of Ajit Gupta's nursing home in Malviya Nagar in south Delhi on the intervening night of January 27-28, 2006.

Metropolitan Magistrate Chetna Singh, to whom the case was sent by the District Judge to examine the lapses in police probe, had asked the police to submit the compliance report on the district judge's order and directed Gupta and his four employees to remain present before it in person.
Apart from the accused, an Investigating Officer (IO) on behalf of the Police Commissioner today appeared in the matter and told the court that it needs two months time to re-investigate the case as they have to visit the native place of the victim.
"I have to re-investigate the matter from initial stage. I need to get into the root of the alleged incident and also the crime," the IO told the court.

The court allowed the IO's request and asked him to file the complete report of the investigation by May 28, the next date of hearing in the case.
The District Judge had directed re-investigation on the plea of the victim's wife who had alleged that it was a case of murder and not death due to negligence as concluded by the police.