Vigilance sleuths take doctor into custody

Tribune News service

Amritsar, April 25

The Vigilance Department has been taken a head of orthopaedic ward of the local Government Medical College into custody following a complaint lodged by the family members of a prisoner.

Till the filing of the report in the evening vigilance sleuths were still questioning the doctor. Family members of the prisoner had alleged that a clerk of the Orthopaedic Out Patient Department of the Government Medical College was demanding money for shifting him into a ward. The clerk was arrested by vigilance officials immediately.

It was during the interrogation of the clerk that vigilance officials picked up the doctor, identified as Dr Partap Singh Verka.

Meanwhile, Dr BS Bal, Principal of the Government Medical College, has confirmed that officials of the Vigilance Department had picked up Dr Verka. However, he feigned ignorance about the reason for which he was taken into custody. Dr Bal said a departmental inquiry would also be initiated in this connection.