Accused Function Cash Chain: Accused’s function in cash chain: Getting sufferers from native nursing properties, operating tout racket | Kolkata Information

Accused Sanjay Roy would cost cash for arranging hospital beds and assessments

KOLKATA: An unbiased investigation by TOI following the horrific rape-murder of a younger physician has revealed a number of different ills plaguing R G Kar Medical Faculty and Hospital beneath the present dispensation led by principal Sandip Ghosh.
One among them is the “common follow” of “serving to” cash-strapped sufferers being handled in close by nursing properties get beds on the hospital — in fact — for a charge.And Sanjay Roy, the civic volunteer arrested by cops for the crime, has been a key a part of this chain.

“He had nice connections with the native police station and was very pally with each junior and senior officer posted on the cop outpost of the hospital. There may be one junior officer specifically with whom he principally used to crew as much as run the racket. However the cash he charged from the harrowing sufferers stuffed a number of pockets in an organised chain,” stated a supply on the hospital.
Cops probing into the rape and homicide of the younger post-graduate trainee physician at R G Kar Hospital stated since 2019 Roy was by no means deployed in any police exercise.
“He was a part of the police welfare cell and his job at R G Kar was solely understanding and serving to those that would get admitted there. He had no function within the police outpost. Nonetheless, he visited this hospital frequently and used to go to the outpost very ceaselessly,” stated an officer.
Amongst a few of his different actions was heading a racket of touts who would cost cash for a number of ills and malpractices on the hospital like arranging a number of visiting playing cards and hospital beds and assessments earlier than others within the queue.
“Recognizing affected person kin arriving on the RG Kar Hospital, who had been seemingly properly to do, he would additionally lure a few of them to nursing properties close by promising higher therapy than the govt. hospital whereas claiming docs from the identical hospital will deal with sufferers there,” stated one other supply on the hospital.
Sources stated flaunting his connections with some senior officers of Kolkata Police, he had even threatened the district reserve officer to allot him a spot within the fourth battalion barrack at Bidhannagar.
“He’s identified to drop names usually to get his jobs executed and claimed to know a number of influential cops,” stated the officer.
One other officer stated flaunting his connections and driving a bike that had KP written on the visor, he additionally allegedly duped younger jobseekers promising them jobs throughout the drive for a charge. “There may be additionally an allegation in opposition to him that he had taken over Rs 2 lakh from a hawker promising him a job as a civic volunteer,” stated a supply.