Odisha: 5 employees of SCB medical college arrested for referring patients to private hospitals

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. 

Das is a resident of IB Road, Naik from Jagatpur, Nayak, a resident of Balikuda of Sadar, Sahoo, a resident of Masinghpatna and Ramani, resident of Mahanga, Cuttack district.

DCP Pinak Mishra told TOI "The group had collected money from patients who come from remote areas and diverted them to different private hospitals for diagnosis and treatment. A probe is on to know if hospital authorities were involved in the incident."

Section 420 — Cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property.—Whoever cheats and thereby dishonestly induces the person de­ceived to deliver any property to any person, or to make, alter or destroy the whole or any part of valuable security, or anything which is signed or sealed, and which is capable of being converted into a valuable security, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine.

Section 34 — Acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention.—When a criminal act is done by several persons in furtherance of the common intention of all, each of such persons is liable for that act in the same manner as if it were done by him alone.

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