Pune: A viral video of three men at PMC-run Kamala Nehru Hospital set off a chain of events – evacuation of staffers and visitors, even an investigation into a possible terror angle, and detention of the trio on suspicion of being illegal Bangladeshi immigrants – on Wednesday morning. By evening, police ascertained upon verification of Aadhaar, PAN, and voter ID cards found with the three men that they hailed from the Kishanpur police jurisdiction in Supaul district of Bihar . Ruling out the terror angle, Pune police commissioner Amitesh Kumar, who was accompanying the governor during the latter’s visit to the city, told TOI, “No such thing has happened.
” A police officer said that the three men had come to Pune on July 27 to collect funds for a religious establishment at Supaul and they had got authorisation from a cleric in Kondhwa. “They were residing in a mosque at Kasewadi in Lohiyanagar settlement," he said, adding they have contacted their Bihar counterparts to verify the men’s credentials. Investigations revealed that the three had visited the civic hospital around 11.
40am on Tuesday and were there till around 2.30/3pm as one of them had taken ill. They got case papers done for the ailing person and visited a diagnostic centre on the hospital premises to give a blood sample for a test.
Around this time, a woman present at the hospital got suspicious about their movement and shot their video on her phone before sharing it on an instant messaging service. .