The committee had indicted several top officials of the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) and the then medical superintendent of Safdarjung Hospital, Dr P.C. Rai, in the scandal. The committee was instituted by the Delhi High Court to probe the incident which allegedly left at least 16 patients seriously ill and one dead at the hospital.

The hospital's Medical Superintendent Dr P.C. Rai admitted to the committee that he wasn't even aware that patients had become ill till the noon of September 22, 1992, when ``a reporter brought to my notice that there have been some reactions to glucose solution in Ward-1 (Female Surgical Ward) on the evening of September 21, 1992''.

Later, when he was confronted by the media, Dr Rai denied there was any ``prima-facie evidence of the (IV fluids) bottles being contaminated...since two companies supplying three different fluids were involved, no common cause can be evolved,'' he said.

The then Director General of Health Services also downplayed the incident even after he was told the facts by his inquiry officer. ``There have been cases where some patients develop reaction. When eight patients developed reaction, the dextrose drip was stopped and they were given antidote reactions. All the eight patients are now doing well,'' he had told reporters.

Juctice Kochhar's report said: On September 21, 1992, ``...the patients in the surgical ward complained of vomiting, fever, pain and shivering soon after they were given the particular glucose solution. The solutions were promptly changed but the next lot too produced the same effect and when after repeated change of bottles, the same reaction was produced, the patients refused to take the IV fluids.'' The situation was reportedly not confined to just one ward, as Dr Rai claimed it was. DGHS Inquiry Officer Dr V.P. Bansal pointed out this out in the first of his four reports (subsequently all disregarded by the government without explanation).