Ballia staff nurse booked over alleged document forgery

Ballia: A case has been registered against a staff nurse posted at the Rasra Community Health Centre in Ballia district for allegedly securing the job using forged documents, concealing facts and using different dates of birth in various examinations, police said on Sunday.

On a complaint filed by Dr Manish Jaiswal, Superintendent of the Rasra Community Health Centre, an FIR was registered against nurse Kumudlata Rai.

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According to the FIR, Rai, a resident of Amarhat village of Mau district, allegedly cleared different examinations in different years by showing different dates of birth and later obtained the job by hiding facts, news agency PTI reported.

Rasra police station in-charge Yogendra Bahadur Singh said an FIR has been registered against the nurse under relevant sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, and an investigation is underway.

Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Dr Sanjeev Verman told PTI on Sunday that Rai, who had been serving as staff nurse at the Rasra Community Health Centre for nearly ten years, was suspended on Friday.

He said a departmental inquiry confirmed that she had secured her job using forged documents.

Acting on directions from the Director General of Medical and Health Services, Rai was suspended, and action was initiated to register a case against her, the CMO added.

Medical Dialogues had earlier reported that a practising doctor from Bongaigaon, Assam, has come under police scrutiny for allegedly using a medical registration number that does not belong to him. An FIR has been registered against the doctor, who holds an MD degree from Russia and has been treating patients for nearly 24 years at Dr Agarwala’s SM Hospital and at his own clinic in Jyoti Nagar.

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