The Vigilance police on Monday caught Dr Sanjib Kumar Kar, Ophthalmologist, District Headquarters Hospital (DHH), Subarnapur, while accepting a bribe of Rs 5,500 from a person.
Kar had demanded the bribe from the complainant for conducting cataract surgery of his uncle. The said surgery is done free of cost in Government hospitals across the State.
In spite of this, Dr Kar was demanding bribe from patients for doing the surgery. The complainant, being a poor man, requested Dr Kar several times to do the cataract surgery of his uncle, who is an ailing old man and an octogenarian, but he insisted on the bribe to be paid before the surgery.
Soon after the trap, simultaneous searches were carried out on the residential house of Dr Kar n Balangir town, residential Government quarter in the DHH campus, Subarnapur and his clinic at Kalapathar, Subarnapur.
Further, cash of Rs 2.06 lakh was recovered during searches at his residential locations in Sonepur and Balangir, which he could not account for satisfactorily.
Later, Kar was arrested and forwarded to court.