India, May 28 -- Dr Ajay Taware was reinstated as medical superintendent of Sassoon General Hospital (SGH) on the recommendation of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) MLA Sunil Tingre, according to a report accessed by HT.

Dr Taware and Dr Srihari Halnor, casualty medical officer (CMO) at SGH, were arrested on Monday for allegedly changing the blood samples of the minor involved in the Porsche car accident that claimed two young engineers at Kalyaninagar on May 19.

The Directorate of Medical Education and Research (DMER) had directed Dr Taware, medical superintendent of SGH for around eight years, to step down in April 2022 following alleged malpractice in the kidney transplant procedure.

The illegal organ transplant case was exposed at ...