Agencies / New Delhi
Suspended Gorakhpur BRD Medical College Hospital paediatrician Dr Kafeel Khan has alleged that precious time was lost in filing a medico-legal case when his younger brother Kashif Jameel was shot by unidentified assailants on Sunday.
Going against doctors’ advice that bullets must be immediately removed from Jameel’s body, Khan claimed the police insisted on filing a medico-legal case before his brother was treated. A case was filed at a private hospital in Gorakhpur.“It took an hour to file it (medico-legal case). They (police) again insisted that the medical college will file the medico-legal and a board will be constituted and after that, you will get the clearance,” Khan said in a two-minute video he posted on his Twitter handle. Medical college, however, clarified there was no need of filing a fresh case when it has already been registered, Khan said.
The bullets have been removed and the operation was successful and Jameel is recovering in ICU, he added.The shooting, Khan claimed, happened just 500 metres away from the Gorakhnath temple. “Nobody knows who fired the gun. The incident happened just 500 metres away from the Gorakhnath temple where CM was sleeping,” he said.
The attack, police said, took place on Sunday night when Jameel was on his way home on a bike. He was shot at in Kotwali police station area of Gorakhpur. Kashif, a businessman, was shot last evening meters from the Gorakhnath temple, CM Yogi Adityanath’s home. With CM staying there, there was heavy police presence in the area and the family questions how the shooting could have taken place in a high security zone. “Jameel was undergoing treatment when police came to know. He is out of danger,” Circle officer said.
The family has been going through “sheer hell” since that fateful day when the oxygen supply ran out at the BRD hospital and Dr Khan rushed to help tackle the emergency situation. He is barely out of jail, that his brother has now been shot at. That he was not killed is not for want of trying as the assailants shot him in the neck as well. Till date there are no details of the assault, of the persons involved. The police has made no effort to recover the CCTV footage or find eyewitnesses to piece together the deadly crime.
But “we will not bend” Kafeel Khan said pointing out to The Citizen that they had taken a cue from their mother, a singularly brave woman who took a rickshaw at 5pm to reach the hospital and sit quietly, without hysteria, by the side of her son who she had nearly lost.