The Bhabha hospital at Bandra, where actor Salman Khan was first taken for a blood test following the accident involving his car, and a series of events that followed thereafter remain a riddle in the 2002 hit-and-run case.
According to the police, since Bhabha did not have the facility to extract blood, Salman was taken all the way to JJ hospital for a blood test. This, the Bombay High Court remarked, was one of the “missing links which created doubt over crucial piece of biological evidence.”
However, the hospital has categorically denied that it was ill-equipped for such a simple procedure.
“I do not know what exactly happened that night, but we have the facility to take blood samples even before 2002. You only need needles, syringes, test tubes and sealing material to seal the sample. It is impossible that we did not have this facility. I do not know why the police said this,” the hospital’s medical superintendent Dr. Pradeep Jadhav told The Hindu.
Blood samples are generally collected by the casualty medical officer, sealed and given to the police, after which they are sent to the forensic lab for analysis.
Bhabha hospital remains a riddle in Salman case - The Hindu