Abu Dhabi: Police here have formed a special investigative team to probe Thursday’s murder of a doctor at Ahalia hospital in the city, Gulf News has learned.
The arrested suspect in the case is a Pakistani national and he is being interrogated by the special investigation team to establish the motive behind the gruesome murder, said a police official who did not want to be named.
Dr Rajan Daniel, 62, a consultant urologist at the hospital located along Hamdan Street, was found dead in his consultation room on Thursday evening lying in a pool of blood.
The police official said the investigation team was gathering more information about the suspect. A special team of prosecutors will also be involved in the case, he said.
A spokesman of the hospital said the suspect was a regular visitor to the hospital during the past three months but he never showed any sort of abnormality or suspicious behaviour.
He had sought medical attention from other doctors as well and had been visiting Dr Rajan for a while.
He entered the doctor’s consultation room as usual on Thursday evening, the spokesman said.
A short time later, a man was seen running away from the consultation room with a knife \in his hand. He ran into another department of the hospital by mistake, where he was caught by the hospital staff and later handed over to the police, the spokesman said.
However, the doctor was already dead, having likely succumbed to his injuries seen around his neck.
Dr Daniel hails from Southern Indian state of Kerala. He is survived by wife Geetha George and only daughter Junu.
He worked with Ahalia hospital for five years.
The doctors and other staff members of the hospital are attempting to come to terms with the death of a colleague.
“Nobody ever imagined in their wild dreams that such an incident would happen in the hospital, especially such a tragedy to a nice doctor.”
