Dhanapur police in Chandauli on Saturday arrested Indrajeet Prajapati, the manager of Indra Hospital at Mahraiya, in a case alleging he performed surgery on a patient without a doctor present and that the patient later died, police said.
An FIR under Section 105 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita was registered after a postmortem and an inquiry ordered by the Chandauli chief medical officer, according to Dhanapur station house officer Surya Prakash Mishra. Prajapati, 24, allegedly used the prefix "Dr" before his name though he was the hospital manager.
Complainant Chandravali Bind of Lakhaipur village under Dheena police station stated that his married daughter Suman, 27, was admitted to the hospital on 18 August for a uterus-related complication. He alleged that on 19 August Prajapati operated on her, cut the wrong vein and damaged her kidney, after which she died the same night. Those are allegations recorded in the complaint and investigation narrative; guilt or innocence will be decided by the court.
Police said they arrested Prajapati from Indra Hospital, Mahraiya, after an informer's tip. In initial interrogation, according to the police account, he said he was the manager who usually arranged treatment by calling doctors, and that on the day of the incident the doctor did not come, so he performed the surgery himself, after which the patient died. That statement is a police version of what the accused allegedly said; it is not an independent medical finding published here.
Chandauli borders Varanasi and feeds patients into the same regional hospital market. City readers use private facilities across that line for surgery quotes and shorter queues. A case alleging unqualified operative intervention therefore lands as a consumer-safety story as much as a crime brief.
Families choosing small hospitals should verify the operating doctor's registration, ask who will be physically present in theatre, and keep written consent papers. Those steps do not guarantee safety, but they reduce the grey zone in which a manager can allegedly step into a surgeon's role when a doctor is absent.
Public health administrators already run licensing and inspection regimes; this FIR will test how quickly those regimes react when a death complaint survives postmortem and CMO inquiry. Mishra said investigation continues after the arrest.
Regional crime coverage from the Varanasi desk regularly tracks police action in adjoining districts when the facts affect Banaras readers' hospital and travel choices, similar in geographic scope to other recent enforcement stories filed from the wider belt. Readers can also weigh this against city-side medical capacity reporting such as earlier inspection notes on drug availability at Kabirchaura Hospital, which addressed a different gap in public care.
No photograph of the survivor's family is being published beyond what the complaint already places on record, and no invasive clinical detail beyond the complaint's own terms is added here. The patient's name appears because it is central to the FIR narrative already circulating in official accounts.
What happens next is remand, medical expert opinion if sought by the court, and further investigation into who was rostered at Indra Hospital on 19 August. Until those records are tested in court, the story stands as an arrest on serious allegations, not as a closed finding of surgical fact.
Families tracking the developing facts should keep screenshots of official notices and avoid sharing unverified forwards that invent quotes or timings.
Context from earlier Dalimss Varanasi reporting shows how civic, cultural and enforcement stories often overlap in the same wards across a single festival month.
The Varanasi desk will update only when a named office confirms a fresh figure, arrest, schedule change or completed civic work on the ground.
Families tracking the developing facts should keep screenshots of official notices and avoid sharing unverified forwards that invent quotes or timings.
Context from earlier Dalimss Varanasi reporting shows how civic, cultural and enforcement stories often overlap in the same wards across a single festival month. City crime and safety readers can also weigh recent police action briefs such as Manduadih police removing dubious cure posters when judging how quickly local stations respond to public-harm complaints.
The Varanasi desk will update only when a named office confirms a fresh figure, arrest, schedule change or completed civic work on the ground.
