Kolkata, July 26: The state police on Friday claimed to have busted a racket involving sale of medical supplies of government hospitals.
The police had arrested Sabitri Dalal, 55, a resident of Khardah in North 24-Parganas for smuggling medicines from a government hospital.
Dalal, a nurse at Nil Ratan Sircar (NRS) Medical College and Hospital for the last 15 years, was the sister-in-charge of the operating theatre at the orthopaedic department of the hospital.
Apart from this, the police also arrested Mohammad Taufiq and Bina Turi, both Group D employees of NRS.
According to the police authorities, Sabitri was recently transferred from the emergency department.
Speaking on Sabitri, a senior police official said: “There were allegations of irregularities against her. The authorities suspected something wrong and transferred her.”
Taufiq and Bina, who had been arrested earlier, also named her during interrogation. The nurse has claimed before police that she had been lured into the trade by both Taufiq and Bina.
“They said the racket was being run by Dalal. She was arrested and produced in court today and remanded in police custody till August 5,”added the police official.
However, the police believe that more hospital employees could be involved in this racket.
—-Agencies