Mumbai: Mumbai Police Commissioner A N Roy has suspended Madhukar Sankhe, a senior police inspector of Malabar Hill police station, in connection with the lathicharge on protesting medical students, Deputy Chief Minister R R Patil said.
Earlier, a delegation of medical professionals like Dr Vijaya Patil, Dr Umesh Oza, Dr Lalit Kapoor, Dr Sunita Kshirsagar, Dr Suhas Pingale and Dr Ashok Punjabi called on Patil to put forth their stand against the police action on medical students on Saturday.
Patil said Sankhe had not given correct information about the events unfolding outside Raj Bhavan and hence Commissioner Roy in his initial comments had stated that there was no 'lathicharge'.
Patil explained that since he became Home Minister, he had withdrawn clauses in cases related to students' agitation, which required them to be present before the courts. "I am not for jeopardising their careers," he added.
Patil said Raj Bhavan was a 'prohibited area' and the students should not have assembled there to stage a protest.
Dr Kshirsagar, President of Indian Medical Association in Mumbai, told the Deputy Chief Minister that the students were staging a peaceful protest and were not marching towards Raj Bhavan to gain forcible entry as claimed by the police.
"We wanted somebody to hear out our grievances on the reservation issue," she added.
Patil termed the students' protest outside Raj Bhavan and the subsequent lathicharge as 'unfortunate'.
He also told the delegation that a suo motu inquiry had been ordered into the lathicharge and a report would be submitted in 15 days.
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