Sundargarh Chief District Medical Officer (CDMO) ordered Additional District Urban Public Health Officer (ADUPHO) to conduct an inquiry on Sunday into allegation of demanding bribe by a team for conducting postmortem on Saturday evening.
Tension had prevailed near the post mortem house of Panposh Sub-Divisional Hospital on Saturday evening as the kin of the deceased
alleged that the doctor and other staff on duty took Rs 5,000 from
them as bribe to do post mortem and later after the intervention of
CDMO, they returned the money.
One Binod Badaik (36) of Kaldega Jarimati of Simdega, succumbed to his injury on Friday late night at around 11.30 pm. His family members came to Rourkela to take his body. Brahmani Tarang police had seized the body and sent it to Panposh Sub-Divisional Hospital for post mortem. On Saturday at around 5 pm, the family members of Binod reached near the post mortem house carrying the body but the doctor who was on duty and the other support staffs allegedly refused to do the post mortem citing that after 5 pm postmortem cannot be done. Later they demanded Rs 5,000 for doing the postmortem.