A new scandal linked with Dr. Taware’s arrest related to the tampered evidence in the Porsche drunk driving case Sheds light on the recent activities of a senior medical officer, Dr. Ajay Taware; he has also been involved in several bureaucratic scandals.
Police investigation made it clear that several brokers in western Maharashtra provided patients to Dr Taware to get their treatment done with extra speed. For this, they used to take huge amounts of bribe money. These ‘Middlemen’ were discovered to be active in five districts of the state, suggesting that there might be more similar official influence-peddling involving Dr.Taware.
The accused, Dr. Taware, is a forensic medicine expert currently working as the head at the Sassoon hospital that, is affiliated with the Maharashtra state government and is alleged to have exchanged the blood samples of a minor accused in a Porsche car accident incident. The prosecution accused him of substituting the samples with those from another person, with no signs of alcohol.
The investigation continued, and two other hospital staff members were established to have conspired with Dr. Taware and assisted him in disposing of the original samples; Dr. Shrihari Halnor and Atul Ghatkamble were arrested.
The most talked about car accident is the Pune Porsche case involving two IT entrepreneurs; the blood stain proves vital. The police also said that the accused, aged 17 years, had frequented two pubs before the incident.
Notably, Dr. Taware, too, had surfaced in connection with a kidney racket in 2022 and the alteration of a gender test report five years ago in a marital conflict.
The case has now moved to the next level mainly because two new players have come to light, namely Ashpak Makandar and Amar Gaikwad, who are believed to have acted as ‘middlemen’ and were involved in transferring cash in the doctor’s car between the accused doctors and the father of the juvenile driver.
The parents of the minor suspect, Vishal Agrawal and Shivani Agarwal, who is also a real estate agent, have been held in police custody for allegedly helping to remove the real blood sample and replace it with the mother’s blood sample.
As the inquiry continues, the mesh of the administrative corruption and the further follow-up of the links to Dr.Taware raises the consideration of the ethical practices that encourage administrative corruption and the imperativeness of enhanced scrutiny of accountability in the system.
