Bribe for issuing COVID-19 clearance certificates: Doctor arrested by CBI
A doctor from the Port Health Organisation in Paradip was arrested by the CBI for allegedly accepting bribes in exchange for issuing COVID-19 clearance certificates. Caught while accepting Rs 54,000, further investigations revealed large sums of money and property deeds.;
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Paradip: CBI sleuths have arrested a doctor working under the Port Health Organisation, Paradip on the charge of accepting a bribe of Rs 54,000, an officer of the probing agency said on Friday.
A case was registered against the health officer after a trap was laid and he was caught red-handed while accepting the bribe on Thursday, the CBI official said.
The sleuths of the Central Investigation Bureau also searched his premises in Paradip, Cuttack and Balasore and “recovered Rs 17 lakh and USD 20,558 in cash” and several documents, including deeds of properties at various places in Odisha and in Hyderabad in Telangana.
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