PATNA: The vigilance investigation bureau on Wednesday arrested a government doctor and a head clerk at Khagaria civil surgeon office, for allegedly accepting bribe of Rs 1.8 lakh to end an ongoing department inquiry against a nurse and release her salary from August last year.
While Dr Subhash Chandra Baitha Suman was arrested from the rest room of Gogri primary health centre, the head clerk Rajendra Prasad Sinha was arrested from his quarter at Baghwa chowk at Khagaria Bazaar.
Suman was arrested while taking Rs 1.5 lakh as bribe from the nurse Ruby Devi while Rajendra was arrested when he was accepting Rs 30,000 bribe from the nurse's husband Sanjeet Kumar.
Suman is the medical officer in-charge (MOIC) of Gogri sub-divisional hospital in Khagaria where the nurse was posted.
As per vigilance sources, the health department had received complaints that the woman working as a nurse at the sub-divisional hospital was not Ruby but an impersonator.
Sources said that an inquiry was initiated and the nurse’s salary was put on hold and it was yet to be released.
“She was getting a salary of Rs 57,544 per month,” the source said.
“To end the departmental inquiry and releasing her salary of the last seven months, Rs 1.5 lakh bribe was demanded by the doctor and Rs 50,000 by the clerk to put up her file before the district civil surgeon,” a vigilance source said.
The source said that after negotiation, the clerk agreed on payment of Rs 30,000.
“A vigilance trap team led by DSP Vimlendu Kumar Verma trapped the doctor while another team led by DSP Sarvesh Kumar Singh tapped the clerk at the same time from two different locations,” the source said.