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Ravi Devgan, 60, who is serving a three-year term for fraud, was convicted in November of medical malpractices.
A jury found him guilty of ordering various prescription drugs, including Oxycontin and Hydromorphone, in his patients' names and then selling them for personal gains.
A pharmacist, who testified against Devgan, told the court that a woman accomplice would enlist drug patients for the doctor who would prescribe various drugs, including the highly addictive Oxycontin, for them.
Then the woman would go to the pharmacy on behalf of the patients and pick up the prescribed drugs.
But these drugs were never given to the patients. Instead, the doctor and the woman sold them for a profit.
Justice Todd Ducharme said Devgan deserved to spend five more years in jail for "serious breach of trust. "
Due to his old age and ill health, the judge ordered that the two sentences run concurrently.
The prosecution lawyer had demanded a five-year concurrent jail. However, Devgan's lawyers argued that he deserved no more than six months.
In July last year, he was convicted of falsely charging thousands of dollars from a family by giving expensive sheep foetus injections to treat their severely disabled twins. In October, he was sentenced to three years in jail.
The sentencing cost him his practicing license too. In stripping him of the license, the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons said Devgan "preyed on terminally ill cancer patients," gave them a false hope and defrauded them of USD30,000.
I fail to understand as to why Dr. Devgan has been practicing in Canada where the police and the judiciary are competent to convict and punish him for his criminal activities. I pity his ignorance about his motherland i.e. India where excellent climate prevails for indulging in his nefarious activities without any fear of law .Even if his clandestine activities were noticed by the Indian police, he could have kept their mouth shut by adequate bribing,.If by bad luck, he was prosecuted in the court of law, he would have escaped punishment for many decades by prolonging his case in the court for any length of time as he desired. Even now it is not too late and I would advise the unlucky Doctor to shift his base to India where he can restart his practice without any fear of law. . Unfortunately he has to serve his full term of punishment as he will be Canada’s jail. In India, he could have even escaped from the jail within a month after being lodged in it as the jail authorities can relax their vigil if bribed sufficiently.
good comments mohan u just missed on that even if he was prisoned in india, he had great future, thats where is ur first political jump, ready for elections and parliament after jail. pity devgan u missed parliament.
Both of you are 100 % correct. What a sad state of affair. India, as cautioned by Churchill, has indeed gone to dogs. No law and order. No accountability. Criminals and Police have become one and the same. History-sheeter thugs are sitting in parliament. People are fighting with one another over the ever shrinking pie. Hindu-muslim north-south Marathi-bihari east-west. So much violence, unrest, injustice ...even the britishers didn't subject indians to such misery as our own people are doing.
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