A local court on Friday remanded radiologist Siddhant Shah, who was in-charge of the MRI Centre of Nair Hospital, to seven days police custody in connection with the death of 32-year-old Rajesh Maru, who died after getting stuck in an MRI machine.
 

He was arrested on the basis of the statement given by Harish Solanki, one of the victim’s kin. The incident happened last week, when Rajesh Maru (32) was suck inside the MRI machine at the BYL Nair Hospital, Mumbai Central. Accompanied by his mother-in-law Laxmi Solanki, 62, he had carried a prohibited metallic oxygen cylinder inside the Magnetic Resonance Imaging room, allegedly on the advice of a ward boy.

The cylinder activated the powerful magnetic fields of the MRI machine which pulled Maru at ful force and the cylinder got ruptured, releasing gas, which complicated matters. Maru, who was brought out swollen and bleeding from the impact of the hit on the MRI machine, died few minutes later. He was the sole breadwinner of his family living in Lalbaug area of central Mumbai.