AGARTALA, March 26 (TIWN): Dr Pratap Sannyal, an eminent doctor of state Tripura has been convicted by CJM court for wrong treatment of a journalist’s wife.

Special  prosecutor of the case was lawyer Raghunath Mukharjee and senior lawyer Pujish Kanti Biswas was the lawyer of the convicted Doctor. The doctor has been convicted for one year for his negligence in duty and wrong treatment. Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) of West District court has given the verdict in favour of patient party.

The special prosecutor of the case was lawyer Raghunath Mukharjee and senior lawyer Pujish Kanti Biswas was the lawyer of the convicted Doctor. The doctor has been convicted for one year for his negligence in duty and wrong treatment. Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) of West District court has given the verdict in favour of patient party. This has been considered such a case where one of the most eminent doctor has been convicted due to his negligence of work. The patient was the wife of one journalist namely Bapi Roy Chowdhury, Ananda Bazar newspaper correspondent. Bapi Roy Chowdhury, S/O. Lt. Santosh Chowdhury of Rampur, Ramnagar Gangail Road, PS.- West Agartala had lodged one FIR against the doctor in 2006 which reflects that as per advice of Dr. Pratap Sanyal, C/O. Care And Cure Poly Clinic and Medical Research Centre, Palace Compound, Agartala, the wife of the complainant Smt. Shrabani Deb (Roy Chowdhury) was admitted at Care and Cure Poly Clinic and Medical Research Centre, Palace Compound Agartala on 07.01.2006 for operation and on 08.01.2006 laparoscopically internal cholecystectomy of Smt. Shrabani Deb (Roy Chowdhury) was done by Dr. Pratap Sanyal there and subsequently discharged from there on 12.01.2006. Thereafter, during post-operation period all necessary steps were taken by Dr. Pratap Sanyal on 14.01.2007 but after 10 days abdomen pain of Smt. Shrabani Deb (Roy Chowdhury) got started and she was given further advise by Dr. Pratap Sanyal but no improvement was felt by the patient. Afterwards the complainant took advice from Dr. Pradip Sarkar and Dr. Pradip Bhowmik. As per the advice of Dr. Bhowmik the CT scan of the said patient was done at GB Hospital on 15.10.2007, where a foreign body in the right lower abdominal wall, part of which also extended intra-abdominally was noticed. Accordingly, the complainant placed that report before Dr. Pratap Sanyal but Dr. Sanyal overruled the said report. Thereafter, the complainant took his wife Mrs. Shrabani Deb to Kolkata and consulted with Dr. Om Tantia and admitted on 29.10.2007 at ILS Multispeciality Clinic, DD-6, Sector-1, Salt Lake City, Kolkata-700064 where further operation was done by Dr. Om Tantia on 30.10.2007 and one broken piece of corrugated drain (as foreign body) was found in the abdominal wall and it was removed. On the basis of a typed FIR to this effect, a case was registered in the West Agartala PS vide West Agartala PS Case No. 254 of 2007, U/S 338 of IPC.