Did Jaya send doctor to jail for asking her to remove her shoes?

Doctors in Chennai are set to hold   a protest rally on 6 April against the Tamil Nadu government over the arrest of 70-year-old N Karunanidhi. No it’s not a typo, but the name of a doctor who found himself behind bars for reasons stated to be as varied as paying the price for his name sounding like the Chief Minister’s arch rival to manhandling and abusing a police official. The septuagenarian doctor at the Apollo Speciality Hospital found the police at his doorstep late on the night of 28 March, and discovered he was being arrested after a police sub-inspector filed a complaint alleging that the senior doctor had abused and pushed him when he failed to remove his shoes while entering the ICU. [caption id=“attachment_684846” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] AFP[/caption] The sub-inspector was accompanying Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa when she was visiting the ailing editor of a Tamil daily, Dina Thanthi, when the incident took place. Understandably, no one believes that a senior physician would push a police official, and they are right not to do so. According to the Week , the rumour is that the doctor asked the Chief Minister to comply with the rule of taking off footwear before entering the ICU, something she didn’t take very kindly to. Whether she complied isn’t known. The hapless doctor spent a night at the Puzhal prison before being released on bail. DMK chief M Karunanidhi has hinted at a deeper political conspiracy and said the doctor may have paid the price for being his namesake. “What’s the crime the senior doctor committed that he has been imprisoned in Puzhal prison? Has he killed anyone? Robbed or kidnapped anyone?” he said in a press statement. PMK leader S Ramadoss released a press statement simultaneously stating that the incident ‘amounts to human rights violations.’