Two arrested for stealing ventilators from Adilabad RIMS

Adilabad: Two persons were arrested on charges of lifting four ventilators at Respiratory Intensive Care Unit (RICU) in Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS)-Adilabad a few days back. Police seized the four ventilators, another ventilator stolen from a Nizamabad hospital, other medical equipment and cash in Rs 1 lakh from their possession. One more accused person absconding.

Briefing details of the arrests to media persons here on Saturday, SP Akhil Mahajan said Sajjan Basanthe Mothe, a medical equipment technician from Chandrapur district of Maharashtra and Medam Konda Reddy, a trader of medical equipment and services from Hyderabad were apprehended for their role in stealing the ventilators on October 30. They both previously worked with RIMS-Adilabad. Abhijit, another accused person Chandrapur Maharashtra, is still at large.

During interrogations, Sajjan Basanthe confessed to taking assistance of Abhijit and using their his familiarity with the medical institute. He admitted to selling the ventilators to Konda Reddy. He revealed that he along with Abhijit committed similar officences in government hospital of Maharashtra and Nizamabad district as well. He disclosed that they both were targetting the hospital under the pretext of technicians and repairing the equipment.

Adilabad DSP L Jeevan Reddy, Two Town Inspector K Nagaraju, CCS Inspector Chandrashekhar, SI Akhil and staffers of the department were present.