Pappu Yadav

Patna, Nov. 22: Pappu Yadav today said surgeon Mritunjay Kumar, accused of outraging the modesty of a female patient, misled Patna High Court in getting interim bail yesterday.

The RJD MP from Madhepura, who has spearheaded a campaign to demand the arrest of Kumar, a leading surgeon of Bhagalpur, told The Telegraph today: “Kumar misled the high court and hid facts while getting relief from the court. The victim’s statement has been recorded under Section 164 of the CrPC and that the court would be apprised of the same. We will attach a copy of the victim’s statement when the case will again come up for hearing in the high court and expose Kumar.”

Pappu came down heavily on some ministers and officials for their complicity in the case. Without naming them, the MP said: “Some ministers and officials are protecting the accused doctor and delaying his arrest. They are doing so for their own vested interest.”

He said despite police issuing an arrest order and the anticipatory bail on behalf of the doctor in the court of district and sessions judge, Bhagalpur, being rejected, Kumar is yet to be picked up. Pappu claimed that the victim was living in “a sense of fear and there is a threat to her life”.

Iterating his demand for a ban on Indian Medical Association (IMA), which Pappu charged with “doing nothing for common good”, the MP directed his ire against the doctors. “The IMA accused me of adopting undemocratic means to get the demands fulfilled. It should instead look into their own misdeeds. If I sit on a protest, it is unlawful, but when they (the doctors) loot their patients, amass huge wealth, go on strike and indulge in violence, it is lawful,” Pappu said.

The state IMA branch has strongly objected the MP’s demand to ban the association.

IMA vice-president Sunil Kumar Singh said: “Pappu occupying a constitutional post is holding the society to ransom. His utterances are causing irreparable damage to the society and the government should interfere and send him to jail. He is instigating fear and hatred and by doing so he wants to carry out his nefarious designs of extortion.”

On the other hand, Yuva Shakti activists sitting on a fast-unto-death in Bhagalpur demanding arrest of Kumar called off their protest today in wake of the high court's decision granting interim bail to Kumar. However, the Madhepura MP would go ahead with his earlier announcement of holding a jan adalat on the issue in Purnea on November 24 demanding Kumar’s arrest.