A psychological examination conducted on behalf of the police on the eight-year-old boy,allegedly molested by a resident doctor of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences,has found that the minor appeared to be influenced,police sources said. Non-governmental organisation Swanchetan,a group the Delhi Police often engages in child abuse investigations,has stated in its report that the child appears to be under the influence of his father. DCP (South) H G S Dhaliwal said,The NGO was asked by police to conduct a psychological examination. They handle all such cases for us. The eight-year-old was operated for a brain tumour at the neurosurgery department of the AIIMS. The accused,Dr Shejoy Joshua,was sacked from the AIIMS on the orders of Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad after an AIIMS probe team submitted its report. While Dhaliwal did not comment on the contents of the report,police sources told Newsline that the finding that the child appeared to be influenced was similar to what a in-house hospital inquiry had found earlier. The report by Swanchetan stated that the child kept looking at his father,constantly seeking his guidance whenever he was questioned,a police source said. The report added that the child was only able to repeat verbatim the written complaint attached to the FIR and when he was asked for more details,he either refused to answer or was unable to do so. Dr Rajat Mitra,clinical psychologist at Swanchetan,was part of a two-member team that conducted the examination. We were called by police to counsel the child and evaluate the situation, Mitra said,adding that such interactions with victims were only done in select cases. This is one of the rare cases where we were asked to talk to the accused as well,to try and understand what transpired behaviourally between the two,to aid the police in their investigations, he said. This was the second such examination of the boy,done as part of police investigations. A similar investigation was conducted at the IHBAS.
