As reported in TOI by Vijay Singh , on 27 August 2009
Two doctors, representing an insurance firm, were kidnapped from a Sanpada nursing home where they had gone to verify a medical claim put forth by the hospital management.
On receiving a complaint by ICICI Lombard, the Turbhe police swung into action and rescued Dr Vinod Singh and Dr Ramesh Singh from a Govandi hospital on Tuesday evening. Three persons, including a doctor at Sharda Nursing Home in Sanpada, have been arrested.
Inspector (crime) M M Patil said another employee of ICICI Lombard received a threat call from one of the accused, claiming that they were “dangerous people” and they would “harm the doctors if their medical insurance bill was not cleared immediately”. The nursing home had submitted bills of one of their patients, Suresh Dube, to ICICI Lombard at their Malad office. However, as the company found loopholes in the documents submitted by the nursing home, they sent the doctors to the hospital for verification.
“Dr Santosh Tiwari, in charge of the hospital, kidnapped the two doctors with the help of his associates, Satyendra Tiwari and Sanjay Soni,” Patil said.
When the police raided the nursing home at Sanpada, they learnt that the kidnapped doctors had been taken to another hospital in Govandi (E). A police team was then sent there and the doctors rescued. “We are investigating if Tiwari has a genuine MBBS degree and the if there is a racket concerning medical insurance claims,” Patil said. Turbhe police officials are on the lookout for two more accused in the case
