Odisha: 5 employees of SCB medical college arrested for referring patients to private hospitals
The Commissionerate Police along with a special team raided the hospital based on a tip off and found those five employees selling OPD tickets. The police seized the tickets along with some cash that they recovered from those five employees.;
Cuttack: The Mangalabag Police has conducted a raid and arrested five contractual employees from SCB Medical College and Hospital under Sections 420 (cheating) and 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention).
The five accused allegedly referred patients to private hospitals and took a lump sum of money from them while attending the medical hospital.
The Commissionerate Police along with a special team raided the hospital based on a tip off and found those five employees selling OPD tickets. The police seized the tickets along with some cash that they recovered from those five employees.
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According to the police, they have been making money from the patients on the pretext of providing better treatment and leud them to go to private hospitals.
The five accused are from the radiology department of the medical hospital who have been identified as 50-year-old Bijay Das, 42-year-old Laxmidhar Naik, 48-year old Sachidanand Sahoo, and 41-year-old Ramani Ranjhan Mohapatra and Dipti Ranjan Nayak.
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