CB-CID arrests five more for evicting patients

The Crime Branch-CID (CB-CID) wing of the police has arrested five more people in connection with the alleged forcible eviction of staff and patients from Coimbatore’s Chennai hospital in 2020. Sources related to the investigation said that R. Palanisamy (40) of Rathinpuri, S. Jahar (40), Purushottam (45) of Sivananda Colony, Vincent Sanjay (39) of Gandhipuram and Suresh Babu (46) of Vellore were arrested on Wednesday. He has been sent to judicial custody. The CB-CID was on the lookout for his accomplices and a person who had allegedly tasked him to send out hospital staff and patients on December 4, 2020. Earlier this month, on June 13, the CB-CID arrested P. Ramachandran. Managing Director of Allen Hospital; Kamaraj, a doctor; Rathinpuri idol; Dr. Ramachandran’s personal assistant Murugesh; And his car driver Palanisamy is involved in the case. According to the CB-CID, Dr. Ramachandran leased his building on Sathyamangalam Road, where he ran the Allen Hospital, to D. Umashankar of Chetpet, Chennai in 2017 to run the Chennai hospital. While there was a dispute between two doctors over the use of the building, a group of men trespassed into a Chennai hospital and sent its staff and patients out on December 4, 2020.