A senior medical officer and a clerk of the Haryana health department posted at the Pinangwan health centre were arrested after being caught accepting ₹ 2.5 lakh from a man in Nuh to allegedly tamper with forensic evidence to falsify a medical examination report to favour the man’s son, who is facing charges of raping a minor, Haryana state vigilance and anti-corruption bureau (ACB) officials said on Wednesday.
The clerk and the medical officer were booked under Section 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act at the ACB police station in Gurugram on Tuesday.
“He confessed of taking the money on the directions of the doctor, following which the team arrested him too from the spot immediately,” Singh said. ACB inspector Vijender Singh said the clerk, a multipurpose health worker, had taken the money and kept it inside a chair when he was arrested on Tuesday.
An officer aware of the case, requesting anonymity, said, “The victim was taken to the Pinangwan health centre for medical examination and collection of samples for forensic analysis, when the clerk contacted the suspect’s father and asked him to pay ₹ 3.5 lakh to tamper the evidence and submit a medical report stating there was no sign of sexual assault.”
