Could 25, 2025 03:34 PM IST
Dr Tapan Kumar Jana, head of the anatomy division at West Bengal’s Murshidabad Medical Faculty and Hospital is an assessor of the Nationwide Medical Fee (NMC)
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday arrested a health care provider for allegedly taking a bribe for issuing a beneficial inspection report back to a non-public medical school in Karnataka, the company stated in a press release.
The company additionally searched the physician’s house within the Hatisal space of Burdwan city. (Consultant file picture)
Dr Tapan Kumar Jana, head of the anatomy division at West Bengal’s Murshidabad Medical Faculty and Hospital is an assessor of the Nationwide Medical Fee (NMC), the assertion stated.
“CBI laid a trap and caught the accused red-handed immediately after he accepted a bribe of ₹10 lakh from representatives of the private medical college based in Belgavi, Karnataka. Later, the accused senior doctor was arrested,” the assertion stated.
The federal company assertion stated {that a} case was registered on Saturday in opposition to the physician and two representatives of the non-public medical school.
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The company additionally searched the physician’s house within the Hatisal space of Burdwan city, round 105km from Kolkata, on Saturday night time.
“Searches were conducted by CBI at residential and official premises of the accused public servant and other private persons at several locations in Kolkata, Burdwan and Belgaum (Karnataka) which led to the recovery of additional cash of ₹44.60 lakh. Total amount of cash recovered during the operation is ₹54.60 lakh,” the assertion stated.
State well being division officers stated the accused and his spouse Sushmita Jana had been each college students of Burdwan Medical Faculty and Hospital.
“The CBI officers came to our home with a search warrant. They did not say why the raid was held,” Sushmita Jana, a radiologist at Burdwan Medical Faculty and Hospital, advised media individuals.
The physician was produced earlier than Kolkata’s Bankshall Court docket on Sunday afternoon. The investigation is underway within the case, stated the CBI.
A remark from the Murshidabad Medical Faculty and Hospital is awaited and the copy will likely be up to date at any time when it’s acquired.
