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Saturday, Feb 12, 2005

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``AIIMS hampering probe into Geelani attack''

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI, FEB. 11. With investigations leading nowhere even after three days of the incident of the Delhi University lecturer, Syed Abdul Rahman Geelani, being shot at near his lawyer's residence at Vasant Enclave in South-West Delhi, the police today charged the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) with "hampering" the investigations by not allowing them to talk to him on the ground that he was "medically unfit."

In a statement, the police said the delay in sanctioning approval by the hospital authorities to record Mr. Geelani's statement on the incident was hampering the probe in the absence of any eyewitness accounts. While the police maintained that no bullets removed from his body had been handed over to them so far, sources at the AIIMS said, "while some bullets have been removed, some are still inside."

The police, on Thursday, had requested that a medical board be set up to seek information on the nature of Mr. Geelani's injuries. However, they have not received any official communication in this regard so far.

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