India Tomorrow
LUCKNOW, OCTOBER 4—The Uttar Pradesh government has initiated a new departmental inquiry against Dr. Kafeel Khan for allegedly spreading “misinformation” about the inquiry report and for making “anti-government” political comments during the period of his suspension.
While Dr. Khan had been absolved of major charges against him by an interim report of a departmental inquiry, Principal Secretary, medical education, Rajneesh Dube told mediapersons yesterday that Dr. Khan had spread “false and misleading information”, including on social media, that he had got a clean chit on the basis of this report.
Dube said that the interim report had found Dr. Khan guilty on two out of the four counts: of private practice and corruption (for allegedly running a private nursing home while holding the post of a senior resident and regular spokesperson for government service). According to Dube, this was “a matter of serious corruption and gross violation of rules.”
Dube told The Hindu that the government had now launched a fresh departmental inquiry has been initiated against him for spreading “misinformation” about the probe report and for making “anti-government” political comments during the period of his suspension.
Dube also said that Dr. Khan had also not been given a clean chit in any of the cases against him.
Dr. Kafeen Khan, however, tweeted that the state government was diverting attention from the real problems. “They r doing so many press conference on Kafeel Khan I request them to do one conference on the kids who died of sudden shortage of liquid oxygen,” he tweeted.
