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Seven Regent Hospital employees remanded over corona test forgery
DHAKA, July 8, 2020 (BSS) – A Dhaka court today placed seven employees of Regent Hospital Limited on a five-day remand each in a case lodged for issuing fake COVID-19 test results, certificates and realizing money from patients illegally in the name of coronavirus tests and treatments.
The accused are – hospital’s administrative official Ahsan Habib, health technician Ahsan Habib, Health Technologist Hatim Ali, Regent Group Project Admin Md Rakibul Islam, Regent Group HR (Admin) official Amit Banik, driver Abdus Salam, and hospital staff Abdur Rashid Khan Jewel.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Sadbir Yasir Ahsan Chowdhury passed the order against them as police produced the accused before the court and pleaded to place them on a seven-day remand each and set August 31 to submit a probe report in the case.
Meanwhile, the court sent another accused hospital’s receptionist Kamrul Islam to Gazipur Juvenile Correction Centre as he was found to be under aged.
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on July 6 raided two hospitals of Regent Group in Uttara and Mirpur and arrested the eight for issuing fake corona test results and certificates by using forged serial number and signatures of concerned authorities, realizing illegal fees from the patients, running hospital business without having any proper approval, among other charges.
RAB, on July 7, filed the case against 17 including Regent Group chairman Md Shahed under sections 406/417/465/468/471/ and 269 of the penal code with Uttara West Police Station.
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