Azamgarh cops nab one with stolen ventilater, no clue in BHU theft case

VARANASI: While the Azamgarh police succeeded in recovering the ventilator stolen from a private hospital and arresting its thief in just 10 days, the Varanasi police are groping in dark even after three and half months of theft of a portable ventilator from the high security zone of Trauma Centre of Banaras Hindu University.
SP Azamgarh Sudhir Kumar Singh said that Kotwali police team arrested one Pavan Sharma of Mau from roadways bus stand when he was trying to escape and recovered the stolen ventilator worth Rs 8.50 lakh from his bag.
Posing as a service engineer, Pavan had reached a hospital owned by Niraj Kumar Rai in Madya area on October 16. He told the emergency medical officer there that he had come to repair infusion machine. He was asked to wait for hospital’s manager. After waiting for some time he entered the ICU and returned with a ventilator machine saying that doctor had ordered for its repair. Before the staff could understand anything he fled with his accomplice waiting outside on a motorcycle. An FIR was lodged by the hospital owner in this connection.
Meanwhile, the Lanka police in Varanasi is still clueless in the theft of portable ventilator from BHU’s Trauma Centre. Inspector Lanka Mahesh Pandey, on Monday, admitted that the case has not been worked out so far.
In their complaint to the police, the BHU officials had mentioned that a portable ventilator of the hospital was lying defunct. On June 8, a person met the nursing officer of the area posing as a service engineer and said that he had come to repair the ventilator and left the campus with the machine.