Apollo doctors approach Delhi HC in Rahul Mahajan case

New Delhi, July 23 (IANS) The Delhi High Court has been approached by five doctors and six other staff members of Delhi's Apollo hospital Monday asking it to quash charges against them of tampering with evidence and misleading the probe in the Rahul Mahajan drug abuse case.

Justice Reva Khetrapal had earlier stayed the lower court proceedings against the doctors and had asked the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate not to proceed with the case till further orders.

Appearing for the doctors, senior counsel Harish Salve submitted that the subordinate court did not have the jurisdiction to prosecute the doctors on the "false charges" framed by the police.

The police had filed the complaint without proper investigation, argued Salve, seeking quashing of the charge sheet filed in January this year.

Rahul Mahajan, son of late Bharatiya Janata Party leader Pramod Mahajan, was admitted to the hospital on June 1 last year following an alleged drug overdose. It was alleged that the doctors had misled the investigators and fabricated the report about his treatment sought by police.