Bhubaneswar

Puri DHH doc caught taking bribe

PNS

Vigilance police on Wednesday arrested Dr Arun Kumar Biswal, Surgery Specialist of the Puri District Headquarters Hospital (DHH) for demanding and accepting bribe of `1,000 from one Balartam Palei for a tumor surgery.

Balaram Palei, a resident of Bedhasunder village under the Brahmagiri police station, had alleged that Dr Biswal had demanded him to pay `1,000 first so that he would fix a date for surgery to his tumor on his heel. Palei was admitted in the DHH on July 30.

Acting on his complaint, the Vigilance police laid a trap and caught Dr Biswal red-handed while receiving the bribe money from Palei.