Gurugram medical officer arrested on bribery charges
Gurugram: A medical officer of Civil Hospital in Haryana's Palwal was nabbed by a team of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), Gurugram red-handed while accepting a bribe, officials said on Tuesday.
The medical officer demanded Rs 38,000 in exchange for keeping the private hospital open after threatening to shut it. The accused had already taken Rs 50,000 from the hospital, a senior officer of ACB said.
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An FIR was registered against the accused under the Prevention of Corruption Act and he is being produced in a city court of Palwal, the officer said.
According to the ACB, a medical officer at Palwal civil hospital demanded a bribe from a private hospital operator in lieu of keeping his hospital open. The complainant also alleged that he demanded a bribe from him regularly, according to the ACB. Before this, he had already taken Rs 50,000 from the hospital operator by threatening to close his hospital.
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