Udaipur: The operation theatre of Udaipur’s Umaid hospital turned into a virtual battle ground on Tuesday when a verbal spat broke between two doctors operating on a pregnant woman.

In a video captured by a staff member in the operation theatre on a mobile phone, both the doctors were seen arguing loudly, calling each other names and even threatening each while conducting an emergency surgery on a pregnant woman, lying on the operation table.

The emergency operation was underway due to the low heartbeat of the foetus, which is when the incident took place.

Both doctors kept fighting, as one was seen involved in the surgery.

When one of the doctors – the obstetrician – finally delivered the baby at a hospital in Rajasthan, the baby didn’t survive.

According to a report in NDTV, the argument erupted between doctors – Ashok Nainwal and ML Tak – during an emergency caesarean surgery scheduled because of the feeble heartbeat of the foetus. It appears to have started when Dr Nainwal, the obstetrician, questioned whether the patient had eaten before the operation. The anaesthetist, Dr Tak, reportedly tried to have a junior doctor carry out tests, which Dr Nainwal did not agree with.

“You stay within your aukat (limits),” Dr Nainwal, in green scrubs and surgery attire, is seen screaming at the anaesthetist.

It quickly degenerated into shouting and name-calling. A nurse and another doctor are seen trying to stop them and remind them that a surgery was underway.

Rajasthan High Court took cognizance of incident of verbal spat between the doctors in the operation theatre at Umaid Hospital and asked the hospital to submit a report by 2 pm on Wednesday.

The Principal of Sampurananda Medical College, AL Bhat, has said he was informed about the “viral” video, where two of the doctors were quarreling and using indecent language inside the operation theatre.

“This is condemnable and a disrespect of the operation theatre,” Bhat said.

He informed that both the doctors have been removed from their post.

Bhat also revealed, “A committee has been established to look into the matter and based on this committee’s report, a strict action will be taken against them.”

Condemning the whole incident, Prinipal Bhat also said they have recommended the government to take this matter seriously.

The onlookers have said that the intensity of the fight was such that the doctors would have beaten up each other.

Amidst the spat, the doctors standing inside the operation theatre kept looking on, as mere spectators.

(Agencies)

New Delhi: The Income Tax Department has imposed Rs 7,900 crore penalty on the tax demand of the same amount on a unit of billionaire Li Ka-shing’s CK Hutchison Holdings Ltd over its decade old sale of mobile phone business in India to Vodafone Group Plc.

In a filing to the Hong Kong stock exchange, the company said its unit Hutchison Telecommunications International Ltd had late last year received a tax demand notice of Rs 7,900 crore and on August 9 received a penalty order of a similar amount.

The CK Hutchison unit continues to dispute the validity of those taxes, it said. Hutchison Telecom, an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of CK Hutchison Holdings Ltd, had received a draft assessment order from the Indian Tax Authorities dated November 24, 2016 on “the alleged gains” made in the 2007 deal with Vodafone.

The tax department on January 25 this year issued the final assessment seeking Rs 7,900 crore in taxes on capital gains made in the Rs 16,430 crore deal. Now, the tax department has by an order dated July 3 imposed “a penalty of approximately Rs 7,900 crore”.

The company said “taxes cannot be validly imposed” as the tax demand order was passed on “the basis of retrospective legislation seeking to overturn the judgement of the Supreme Court of India in January 2012, which ruled that the Acquisition was not taxable in India, are in violation of the principles of international law.”

“Accordingly, the company continues to believe that the tax orders would not have any effect on the company’s financial condition or the results of its operations for any period,” it said. Vodafone had in 2007 acquired 67 per cent stake in the mobile-phone business owned by Hutchison Whampoa, now part of CK Hutchison.

(Agencies)

Asangaon: The engine and nine coaches of the Nagpur-Mumbai Duronto Express derailed between Vasind and Asangaon stations in Maharashtra early today following a landslide, a senior railway official and a PTI reporter on- board the train said.

The accident took place at 6:36 am. No passenger is reported to be injured in the incident so far, Sunil Udasi, Chief PRO of the Central Railway, said. Udasi said the derailment was caused due to a landslide. “The cause (of derailment) is sudden landslide due to heavy rains. But graciously enough, the driver did an excellent job of applying emergency breaks,” he said.

However, another railway official said the exact cause of the derailment was not yet clear. “It is suspected that a portion of the tracks was washed away due to heavy rains in the Kasara Ghats section since there has been long spell of incessant and torrential rains since the past few days,” the official said. The train had a total of 18 coaches.

Helpline numbers have been set up at CSMT, Thane, Kalyan, Dadar and Nagpur stations to help passengers. A PTI reporter, Justin Rao, who was on-board the train said, “At least six coaches along with the engine slipped off the tracks”. Rao, who was travelling in the A-2 coach that derailed, said the accident happened when most of the passengers were sleeping.

“While we were sleeping, we felt a jerk and several passengers fell off their berths. When we got up, we found our train’s bogies derailed”. “Few people were stuck in the washrooms and were rescued by some passengers by breaking glasses of windows,” Rao said. Rao said, “Though relief and rescue came a bit late, everything was fine once the Central Railway team arrived.”

A team of doctors as well as senior officers are at the spot. Proper arrangements have been made to transport stranded passengers from the site to CSMT or other destinations by buses and taxis. Traffic operations in the affected section have been stopped and few trains have been diverted and short- terminated, official said. A statement issued by the Central Railway said, “12859 CSMT-Howrah Gitanjali Express has been diverted via Kalyan- Karjat-Pune-Daund-Manmad route.”

“Sectional officials and railway workers have arrived at the spot and the entire team has swung into action to rescue stranded passengers and restore traffic in the affected section,” Udasi said. “Our rescue team along with the Accident Relief Train along with engineering staff has reached the spot,” he said. This is the fourth train derailment in the country in a a span of 10 days.

About 100 passengers were wounded when 10 coaches of the Kaifiyat Express train derailed in UP’s Auraiya district after crashing into a dumper which strayed on to the tracks. Fourteen coaches of the high-speed Utkal Express jumped the tracks on August 19, with one of them crashing into a house adjacent to the track near Khatauli in Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar district, claiming 23 lives and over 60 injured.

On August 25, six coaches of the Andheri-bound local train derailed in Mumbai, injuring six of its passengers.

(Agencies)

New Delhi: The Met Department Tuesday warned of more “heavy intermittent spells” in the next few hours in Mumbai and its satellite cities where incessant downpour has thrown normal life out of gear.

India Meteorological Department (IMD) Director General K J Ramesh told PTI that the Santacruz weather station, which is in the suburban part of the city, has recorded 8-9 cm (80-90 mm)of rainfall from 8.30 am to nearly 11.30 am.

The Colaba weather station has recorded 15 cm to 20 cm (150-200 mm) of rainfall during the same time period, Ramesh added.

He, however, declined to draw any parallel of the situation with that on July 26, 2005, when the city was inundated after being battered by rains and hundreds were killed.

From July 26-27, 2005, Mumbai recorded 94 cm (944 mm) of rainfall in a day.

“10-15 cm of rainfall in a day is normal for Mumbai. The one the city received on July 26, 2005 was unprecedented,” Ramesh said.

He also said the IMD office in Mumbai was giving updates to the BMC (Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation) and the state government at regular intervals.

The IMD has already given heavy to very heavy rainfall warning to Maharashtra and Gujarat governments, he said.

“Intermittent rain with heavy to very heavy fall at some places is likely to occur in city and the suburbs,” the IMD Mumbai said.

(PTI)

Chandigarh: Self-styled baba Rampal of Haryana, whose private army and aides had fought a pitched battle with police in November 2014 to prevent his arrest, was on Tuesday acquitted in two criminal cases by a court in Hisar town.

The court of Judicial Magistrate Mahesk Kumar held Rampal not guilty of the wrongful confinement, unlawful assembly and disobedience to an order promulgated by a public servant.

However, Rampal will continue to be in prison as he is facing other cases, including of murder conspiracy, sedition and rioting.

The verdict was announced at a makeshift court set up inside the Central Jail in Hisar, about 250 km from here.

Rampal and his close aides, including his private army, had resisted a police operation to arrest him on the orders of the Punjab and Haryana High Court while holed up inside his Satlok Ashram in Barwala town of Hisar in November 2014.

At least six people, including five women and an infant, died during the days’-long standoff with the police as Rampal continued to elude the police.

The High Court had ordered his arrest as he had failed to appear before the law.

Earlier, Rampal’s supporters had indulged in vandalism in a court in Hisar in July 2014 when he was going there in connection with a 2006 murder conspiracy case.

The High Court had taken suo motu notice of the incident and summoned Rampal.

Rampal’s key associates, including Purshotam Dass, Rajkumar, Mahinder Singh, Rajender Singh and Raj Kapoor, were also booked in the case.

The Rampal case verdict was to come on August 24 but was deferred in view of the August 25 verdict against Dera chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim, who has been sentenced to 20 years in jail for rape.

(IANS)

Patna: RJD chief Lalu Prasad’s wife Rabri Devi, younger son Tejashwi Yadav and elder daughter Misa Bharti were on Tuesday questioned in connection with an alleged “benami” (proxy) properties case by Income Tax Department personnel here, officials said.

“Soon after the three reached the Income Tax office here around 10 a.m., they were questioned for over five hours.”

According to department officials, the development was kept a closely guarded secret in view of security threat involved.

Rabri Devi is former Bihar Chief Minister while Tejashwi is a former Deputy Chief Minister and currently Leader of Opposition in the state assembly. Misa Bharti is a Rajya Sabha member of the Rashtriya Janata Dal.

A senior RJD leader told IANS that two days after the party organised a successful anti-BJP rally attended by leaders of 16 opposition parties in Patna, the Centre was again misusing the Income Tax Department to “harass Lalu-ji’s family members”.

In May, the department had raided 22 places in and around Delhi in connection with the case after senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Sushil Kumar Modi claimed Lalu Prasad was connected to hundreds of “benami” properties.

(IANS)