Three held for cheating patients
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members arrested three persons in the city yesterday over their alleged involvement in persuading patients to go to private clinics and diagnostic centres leaving the government hospital.
The arrestees are Rafikul Islam, 30, Jony, 30 of Laxmipur, and Mintu Hossain, 30, of Kazihata area in the city.
According to the Rab officials, a member of Rab-5 intelligence unit posed as a patient and went to Rajshahi Medical College Hospital.
The three arrestees took him to Jamuna Clinic in the city and then took him back to the hospital. The three, breaking serial, took him to the hospital's emergency unit and collected a prescription for several pathological tests.
Then the disguised Rab member was taken to Ekota Diagnostic Centre, where they demanded Tk 3,050 for the tests. They were caught when they demanded the money.
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