Puttur, Jun 15: Hindu Jagarana Vedike leader Ratnakar Shetty, who had disappeared from a private hospital in Puttur last night, has now returned to the same hospital claiming that he had gone to another hospital in Mangaluru.
Interestingly, the doctors of Adarsh Hospital, where he was undergoing treatment since Tuesday, too have endorsed Shetty’s claim. “Shetty did not flee. He was in fact taken to another hospital in Mangaluru for some emergency tests after he developed chest pain. Now he is back,” said one of the doctors.
Shetty, who suffered injuries to his wrist while attacking one Ibrahim Khaleel in Kalladka on June 13, had preferred to get treatment at Adarsh Hospital of Puttur instead of local hospital. Khaleel is undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Thumbey.
According to sources, police had decided to arrest Shetty soon after his discharge from the hospital. However, last night he disappeared from the hospital in spite of the presence of policemen.
Dakshina Kannada Superintendent of Police Bhushan Gulabrao Borase had reportedly suspended three policemen following the disappearance of Shetty.
PFI blames hospital
Meanwhile Popular Front of India has accused the management of Adarsh Hospital of trying to protect HJV leader.
Navaz Ullal, Dakshina Kannada district president of PFI, in a release stated that Shetty was a notorious rowdy who had involved in the murder of an elderly Muslim man in Kalladka a decade ago.
“He had involved in many other criminal cases too. However, instead of invoking Goonda Act against him, the police helped him by slapping petty cases. Now, a hospital in Puttur too is trying to protect him,” he said, expressing suspicion on Dr Prasad Bhandari, one of the proprietors of the hospital.
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