When you’re a DJ claiming that negligent medical care has left you unable to work, it’s probably best not to perform in a music video.

Unfortunately, 33-year-old Sandip Singh Atwal from Birmingham, United Kingdom, didn’t get the memo. He may even be facing jail time after he was found in contempt of court last month.

The BBC reported that he went to the hospital after his hands and lips were injured in an attack with a baseball bat in 2008.

Atwal alleged that the poor treatment he received had left him “unemployed and dependent,” prompting the Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Trust to offer him £30,000 to settle his claim.

Instead of accepting, he sought £837,109 for “future loss of earnings and future care” because he was supposedly “suffering from disability, self-consciousness about his lip and hands, had become a social recluse, suffered alcohol dependence and reliance on painkillers, and was unable to work… between 2010 and 2015,” said the BBC.

All these due to two fractured fingers and a cut lip, which the NHS trust was naturally suspicious about.

So it placed Atwal under video surveillance in 2015, and combed through his social media posts.

According to The Huddersfield Daily Examiner, he was found to be “working as a courier, driving a van for prolonged periods, and loading and unloading items without difficulty.” He was even seen lifting heavy items.

His social media posts, meanwhile, revealed that he released a single and a music video in 2011, where he was “performing with no visible signs of discomfort”.

With an allegation of fraudulent exaggeration, Atwal was forced to accept the offer that was initially made by the NHS trust.

But the £30,000 compensation went into paying the NHS trust’s costs, “so that after eight years of litigation, Atwal ended up owing them £5,000,” The Sun reported.

In April this year, a judge ruled that “14 allegations of contempt relating to false statements had been proved,” although The Huddersfield Daily Examiner said Atwal had no idea that there were even proceedings going on until it was too late. He said he would have cooperated and given evidence.

Sentencing is scheduled for June, although Atwal can still challenge the ruling.

The NHS trust reassured “genuine claimants” that they will still be properly compensated for their “genuine loss as a result of clinical negligence”.

At the same time, it stressed that it is dedicated to combatting fraud. It also warned the public that there are “very serious consequences of submitting dishonest and exaggerated claims.”

 

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