India, Aug. 22 -- An incident at Acharya Shree Bhikshu Hospital in Moti Nagar, west Delhi, blew up into a political row after Moti Nagar MLA Harish Khurana was accused by student doctors of assaulting a resident doctor during an argument over treatment for a child on Thursday.

Student doctors sought an impartial probe into the incident and legal action against Khurana in a letter to the hospital administration and the Delhi chief minister. HT has seen the letter.

The MLA, in a video statement said, there is no video footage that could show he had "beaten up" any doctor at the hospital."There were a lot of complaints that were coming to me of doctors not properly doing their duties at the hospital. On Thursday, I had just done to the hos...