Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today said the government would institute an inquiry by senior health officials into any lacunae in providing medicare to victims of yesterday's landmine blast at Aurangabad.
"As per information provided to me about yesterday's Aurangabad incident, there is no case of lacunae on part of state government in providing timely medical assistance to security personnel but since the issue has been raised I will ask Principal Secretary Health to inquire about it," Kumar told reporters.
"I will ask him to initiate action against those found guilty," he said in reply to a question.
Earlier in the day, the CM condoled the death of three CRPF personnel and expressed sorrow over injuries sustained by eight others, including officer-in-charge of Dibra police station, while defusing landmine planted by Maoists in Dibra police station area in Aurangabad.
Kumar said in his condolence message that the people of the state salute the security personnel who sacrificed their lives for the sake of people's security.
The Deputy Commandant of CRPF Indrajit Singh, who was among the three dead, hailed from Maner block of Patna district.
The CM repeated that the telecast of the clipping of an injured CRPF personnel crying for immediate medical help was a case of mistaken identity as the soldier shown in TV clippings was injured and being treated at Apollo hospital in Ranchi.
On the remark of his former Deputy and senior BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi questioning why the state government did not provide helicopter to rush CRPF personnel to hospitals, he said the state government's helicopter was very much available for such occasion and he and other JD(U) leaders are using helicopters hired by party for campaigning and not those of state government.
