Charges Altered in Dental Patient Death Case Involving Ellington Woman

Charges have been changed in a police case against an Enfield-based dentist who had a patient die while under his care, the Hartford Courant reports.

Dr. Rashmi Patel, 45, a Suffield resident who had operated a dental practice on Hazard Ave. in Enfield, was originally charged with criminally negligent homicide and tampering with evidence after a patient, Judith Gan, 64, of Ellington, died following a lengthy extraction procedure of 20 teeth in Feb. 2014.

New documents filed by a prosecuting attorney Monday in Hartford Superior Court are sustaining the tampering with evidence charge against Patel, but dropping the criminally negligent homicide charge, the paper reported.

Patel will now be eligible to apply for accelerated rehabilitation.

Read more at www.courant.com.

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