Amaravati (Andhra Pradesh): The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Friday allowed the discharge of Doctor Sudhakar, who is currently put up at the government hospital in Visakhapatnam.
Hearing a habeas corpus petition filed by Kaveri, the mother of Dr Sudhakar, the court said that the latter could be discharged with the permission of the hospital superintendent.
Besides, the court also asked Dr Sudhakar to cooperate with the CBI, which is investigating the case.
Expressing happiness over the High Court's order, Kaveri said after being discharged, Dr Sudhakar would be taken to another hospital.
Lashing out at the government, she said that the government was putting pressure on her even till last evening. Expressing confidence on the CBI, she added that she would reveal more details of the injustice meted out to her son if called for questioning by the CBI.
Sudhakar Rao, a civil assistant surgeon at Area Hospital in Narsipatnam, was arrested by the police in Visakhapatnam on May 16th for allegedly creating nuisance on the road at Akkayyapalem.
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In a video of the incident, the policemen could be seen manhandling the doctor, who was seen shirtless to the waist. He was dragged and bundled into an auto-rickshaw. He was, later, shifted to the King George Hospital, where doctors found him in an inebriated condition and was subsequently referred to the Government Hospital for Mental Health, where he received treatment for acute and transient psychosis.
An anesthetist at the Narsipatnam government hospital, Dr Sudhakar was suspended by the Andhra government a few weeks ago after his comments in which he had alleged improper distribution of face masks to the doctors amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.
