Neurosurgeon, Pathology Professor suspended over Private Practice, also under Income Tax Radar
Kanpur: UP based doctor couple associated with Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Memorial Medical College (GSVM), Kanpur have recently been suspended and transferred for being involved in private practice.
Dr Gupta and his wife, who is also a doctor were working as a Neurosurgeon and Assistant Professor of Pathology respectively. Now they have been suspended and transferred to Banda Medical College, adds India Today. This comes a month after the Income Tax raid at the home of the doctor couple.
Now, the authorities have sought affidavit from other doctors, who work in the State Government medical colleges and receive non-practicing allowance for not engaging themselves in private practice. The doctors need to declare in the affidavit that they are not doing private practice anywhere.
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As per the latest media report by India Today, the issue came to light after the Income Tax raid at the home of the doctor couple last month. During the raid, the investigating agency seized cash worth Rs 1.30 crores.
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