Daltonganj police created a big flutter in a doctor’s clinic on Sunday when they took away an unconscious patient undergoing treatment  suspecting him of having Maoist links. The patient hails from Garu where notorious Burha Pahar is in news as the hideout of the outlawed.

Sources said, the latehar police had alerted Daltonganj police to zero in on the patient Ajay Singh. The police team was looking for a bullet injury on the body of the patient, but they  found none, confirmed Dr R P Sinha.

“There was no injury mark on his body. Had there been any bullet wound I would have informed the police,” said Dr Sinha, a retired regional deputy director health and a highly respected medical practitioner of the area.

Sources said the police team headed by SP Palamu Indrajeet Mahatha while doing this caused extreme disturbances to other patients admitted in the clinic. Patients there said under condition of anonymity that this sick man ought to have been shifted without any noise by bringing in an ambulance.

The patient was unconscious, had high fever and jaundice. He was in a pathetic condition said Dr R P Sinha whose clinic was so noisily raided by the police team.

Sources said this patient should have been taken out of this clinic without making such a big show and noise as it was made out giving an impression that police have nabbed a big naxal while the fact is that police tried too hard to locate any injury on his body. However, Ajay Singh’s other features matched with the police input, said sources.

Dr RP Sinha told The Pioneer, “I as a doctor started treating Ajay Singh as his condition was miserable. I had asked his attendant to be ready to shift him to Government sadar hospital in Daltonganj. But before this police came and took him away from my clinic.” Calls made to the SP failed.

The unconscious patient was rushed to RIMS Ranchi by Daltonganj police seeing his extreme unstable condition, said sub inspector of police Daltonganj police station S N Singh.