Hyderabad, Dec 10 – After two men later found dead in an autorickshaw in Chandrayangutta, the city’s police announced that they have cracked the case. Five people were booked, including a neurosurgeon and two hospital workers, for illegally procuring, selling and administering an anaesthetic injection that ultimately killed the drivers.
The arrest list contains Dr S. Jaipal Reddy, Chairman and Managing Director of ABS Hospitals, and his assistant Mohammed Vikaruddin. On November 25, Dr Reddy had ordered 25 vials of Atranium 25 mg from a pharmacy and used four of them during a surgery. The rest were left unsecured in the operating theatre. This lapse allowed ward boy Akash to steal the remaining injections, which he later sold illegally.
Police said that on the night of December 2, Syed Irfan and Saif Bin Akram, both autorickshaw drivers, asked their friend Jahangir Khan for a “Termine” injection. Jahangir turned to his contact Yamjala Kalyan, who then asked Jarpati Shiva Shankar, an autorickshaw driver who supplied such drugs. Shiva offered pictures of Atranium 25 mg and Jahangir bought the injection.
After acquiring the syringes at a medical shop, the group rode in an auto to Chandrayangutta. There, Jahangir handed out four Atranium ampoules. Irfan filled three syringes – two with 2 ml and one with 5 ml – and injected 1 ml into Saif. Saif immediately felt dizzy, fell asleep, and later regained consciousness to find the remaining injections missing. Jahangir and Irfan had taken the rest and collapsed.
Saif’s testimony led police to arrest Kalyan and Shiva. Investigations revealed that Kalyan, a band player, had long been buying Termine injections from Akash. Akash, an addicted ward boy at ABS Hospital, admitted that he had stolen four Atranium vials during OT cleaning on November 26 and sold them to Shiva the next day.
The hospital failed to produce proper receipts for the Atranium injections, violating the Drugs and Cosmetics Act. Mohammed Vikaruddin, a GNM nursing student working as an assistant at ABS Hospital, also arranged the medicines in the OT but did not secure the unused vials after surgery.
The police have lodged charges of culpable homicide not amounting to murder against all five accused. Their actions, from procurement to distribution of a controlled drug, are alleged to have caused the fatal overdose that killed Syed Irfan (27) and Jhangir Khan (25).
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