GUWAHATI: A Forensic Medicine Assistant Professor at Guwahati Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) Dr. Manoj Baishya was caught red-handed by the Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (V and AC) Bureau of Assam Police while accepting a bribe from the family of a deceased patient today, October 22.
The aforementioned patient, Rameswar Prasad of Dispur last gate, was admitted to the hospital after he fell in his bathroom. Prasad died on September 19 at the hospital.
Following his death, a postmortem report was created that stated he died because of high blood pressure as he was intaking a lot of non-vegetarian food and alcohol. However, his family maintained that this could not be the case as he is a pure vegetarian.
Thus, they went to get the full report and met with Baishya who asked them to first pay a bribe of Rs. 50,000. When the family informed the assistant professor that they do not have such a huge amount of money, Baishya asked for Rs. 12,000. However, reportedly, they settled on Rs. 8000 to get the full post mortem report.
Meanwhile, the family informed the Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (V and AC) Bureau of Assam Police in regard to the incident and today, authorities caught Baishya red-handed while accepting the bribe from Prasad’s family.
An interrogation is currently ongoing in the matter.
