The state public health department is doing everything it knows to save face and skin from the Opposition’s grilling during the state assembly’s ongoing session over the Bhandara case, which progressed from being a botched probe into three minor sisters’ unexplained deaths, to a thorough forensic disaster.

On Tuesday, T C Benjamin, additional chief secretary (public health) summoned Dr SD Nanandkar, professor and head of department of forensic medicine and toxicology at Grant Medical College, and Dr Harish Phatak, professor and head of the department at KEM medical college, to understand if there were procedural mistakes and negligence on the part of the five non-forensic doctors who performed the autopsies on the three victims at Bhandara General Hospital.