
Mumbai: Case registered against firm, its 4 partners over ‘illegal’ contract to operate jumbo centres
The Azad Maidan police in Mumbai Wednesday registered a case of cheating, criminal breach of trust and causing death due to negligence against Lifeline Hospital Management Services and four of its co-partners over a complaint by BJP leader Kirit Somaiya that the company bagged a contract of operating jumbo centres during the Covid-19 outbreak by allegedly providing forged documents.
One of the co-partners, Sujit Patkar, is said to be a close aide of Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut. The three others have been identified as Dr Hemant Ramsharan Gupta, Sanjay Shah and Raju Nandkumar Salunkhe.
Somaiya has alleged that Lifeline Hospital Management Services does not have any experience in providing health or medical facilities. The police are yet to make arrests in the case.