A four-member team of the Criminal Investigation Department that is
probing the fake doctors case spoke to officials of the district health
department here today and collected documents related to the recruitment
of two such medical practitioners.
Snehasish Chakraborty and Khushinath Haldar had been working with
fake medical degrees at government run health centres in Dhumpara of
Jalpaiguri and Rangalibajna of Alipurduar for the past few years.
Both Chakraborty and Haldar were recruited on
contractual basis under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) and
were arrested by police last month.
Later, they were handed over to the CID, sources said.
A source in the CID said: "A probe was initiated after more such
doctors were arrested in other parts of the state, including North
Dinajpur district in north Bengal. Our team is regularly visiting
Jalpaiguri and Alipurduar to collect more information about them. Also,
documents and information have been sought from health officials
concerned as to how these persons, who had produced fake degrees, were
recruited as doctors."
Today, the CID team spoke to Jagannath Sarkar, the CMOH of Jalpaiguri, for around one-and-a-half hour.
They also called the accountant of Sulkapara block health centre where one of the accused doctors was earlier posted.
The CMOH said: "The NRHM had sent us a list of some doctors for
verification of their degrees. After verification, the registration
number furnished by Chakraborty did not match with the records of the
state medical council. A complaint was filed against him."
CID sources said the documents like details of the alleged fake
doctors' salaries, prescriptions written by them and some other
documents had been obtained from the health centres and the district
administration.
"On Monday, the CID had visited the health centre in Alipurduar I
block where Haldar had been posted and collected information. Yesterday,
the team also spoke with Puran Sharma, the CMOH of Alipurduar, for over
one hour," a CID source said.(TT)
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