BRD ex-head's son takes up legal battle

LUCKNOW: Till ten months ago, Dr Purak Misra, was performing surgeries at a leading private hospital in Delhi. He was also scheduled to take examination for the fellowship of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons (FRCS) in UK, with top stints at Delhi hospitals like Moolchand, Fortis and others.
However, sudden turn of events in his family halted his dreams and his career took a jolt. With both his parents accused of medical negligence, culpable homicide and graft in Gorakhpur’s BRD College Medical tragedy in August 2017 in which over 30 kids died, Purak is living on a prayer.His father Rajiv Mishra was the BRD principal and mother Purnima was attached with BRD's clinial trial unit (CTU) as project manager.
Since then, Purak has quit his cushy job at Apollo Hospital, is seeking loan from his friends and families and preparing to mortgage or sell off his assets. His mission: To fight the Uttar Pradesh government and UP Police chargesheet with a second leave petition (SLP) before the Supreme Court. He has engaged senior SC advocate and former attorney general Mukul Rohtagi as his parents' lawyer. “I am hand-tomouth right now. There is no one to help us except some friends and relatives. I have decided to sell off our Gorakhpur home and fight against the government,” says Purak. This even as Dr Kafeel Khan and oxygen firm supplier Pushpa Sales owner Manish, who too were charged along with his parents, got bail from Allahabad HC and SC respectively.
Thrice a week, Purak is the only visitor to his parents, who are lodged in Gorakhpur prison. “Three days, I meet them. I tell them the progress of the case. I won’t accept taint on my father or mother. I have lost the job and a future career but I will alone take this battle. UP government itself has said that snapping of oxygen supply can’t be blamed for deaths, then why frame junior people while no accountability on top. My father was just a principal and he would make just small purchases like masks, gloves and other things in an emergency situation. Rest of the sanctions were done by the DGME,” he says.