After examining all the Government doctors who had treated the Pipili gangrape victim of 2012, the Justice PK Mohanty Commission of Inquiry on Saturday issued summons to two private doctors to depose before it on March 21.
Dr AK Rath and Dr PC Mohanty, who had separately treated the victim on two different occasions, were asked to appear before the commission for examination-in-chief and face cross-examinations.
While the victim was for the first time discharged from the SCB Medical College Hospital in December 2011, she was taken to a private hospital on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar where Dr Rath treated her for about two weeks.
When the victim was discharged from the SCB for the second time in January 2012, she was treated for a brief period at a private hospital here under the supervision of Dr Mohanty, a retired professor.
As it became imperative for the commission to examine all angles leading to the alleged neglect in treatment to the victim for which she died after slipping into coma for more than six months, the commission felt it necessary to summon the private doctors, said advocate Pravat Ranjan Dash, who is appearing in the commission for former SCB superintendent Dr DN Moharana.