New Delhi, Sep 23 - The medical superintendent of a premier hospital here Wednesday accused a senior police official of framing him by registering a false case of cheating, forgery and criminal conspiracy against him last month but the latter has denied the charge.

Safdarjung Hospital medical superintendent Jagdish Prasad Rai told reporters that police inspector Ramesh Kakkar had approached him in July seeking admission for one of the relatives of Deputy Commissioner of Police (South Delhi) H.G.S. Dhaliwal in a post-graduation course in medicine, for which a competitive exam was conducted July 13.

'But I refused and was threatened by the police inspector. Later through the media I got to know that a false case was registered against me on Aug 28 on the complaint of a blind man who sells cigarettes in the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS),' he said.

'I think the false case was registered on directions of Dhaliwal,' he added.

Dhaliwal in a written statement rebuffed the allegations against him.

'It is clarified that none of my relatives has ever applied for admission in any course at Safdarjung the Hospital.