Delhi police on Sunday claimed that it has established that there was no need for Rahul Mahajan to be put on ventilator after his admission to Apollo Hospital after alleged drug abuse in the wee hours of June 2.
However, Apollo Hospital said the police conclusion was "very premature and motivated".
After interrogating around 10 doctors and several technicians of the hospital for the last three days, "we have been able to establish that there was no need to put Rahul on ventilator after his admission," a top investigating officer told PTI.
"Either it is VIP syndrome or they had intention to hide something," he added.
"The vital parameters of Rahul at the time of his admission did not warrant ventilator support. Any other hospital would not have taken such a line of treatment," the police official said.
A high-level team led by Assistant Commissioner of Police B B Chaudhary, himself a doctor, has been questioning doctors and other employees of the hospital to get a definite idea about the sequence of events after Rahul's admission in the hospital.
When contacted, Apollo's lawyer Lalit Bhasin told PTI that "several doctors are yet to be interrogated by the police in connection with the case. Such a conclusion at this point of time is premature and motivated."
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