Eight outsourced staff of govt-run Victoria Hospital booked for misappropriation of money
Bengaluru (PTI): Police have registered an FIR against eight outsourced staff members working at the Infosys Lab billing counter at the Government run Victoria Hospital, alleging misappropriation of government funds amounting to Rs 23.78 lakh collected from patients for blood tests.
These accused are the Data Entry Operators (DEO), who had allegedly put up their own UPI QR code and diverted money to their account.
The case was registered at the Visvesvarapuram police station on February 3 following a complaint by Dr Deepak S, Superintendent of Victoria Hospital, Bengaluru.
The alleged offence took place at the Infosys Lab counter located within the hospital premises between January 1, 2025 and May 31, 2025, police said.
"In the Infosys Lab billing counters at Victoria Hospital, the accused, who were appointed on an outsourcing basis, collected money from patients for various blood tests but failed to deposit the amount into the government account and instead misused Rs 23,78,693 for their personal gain," Dr Deepak S stated in his complaint.
The accused have been identified as Preethi, Punitha, Salma, Satya, Shashikala, Lakshmikanthamma, Darshan and Mahendra.
Confirming the registration of the case, a senior police officer said, based on the complaint received from the hospital superintendent, an FIR has been registered for cheating and criminal breach of trust. The matter is under investigation, and further action will be taken after verifying financial records and statements.
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Court can reject anticipatory bail but cannot direct accused to surrender: SC
New Delhi (PTI): A court can reject anticipatory bail of an accused but it has no jurisdiction to direct him to surrender before the trial court, the Supreme Court has said.
A bench of Justices J B Pardiwala and Ujjal Bhuyan made the observation while hearing a plea filed by a man accused of cheating and forgery.
"If the court wants to reject the anticipatory bail, it may do so, but the court has no jurisdiction to say that the petitioner should now surrender," the bench said.
The Jharkhand High Court had rejected anticipatory bail plea of the accused and asked him to surrender and seek regular bail.
In this case, a complaint had been filed before a magistrate alleging offences under Sections 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 420 (cheating), 467 (forgery of valuable security), 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating), 471 (using forged document) and 120B read with 34 of the IPC, in connection with a land dispute.
The high court had dismissed the second anticipatory bail application of the accused on the ground that no new circumstances were shown.
It had relied on its earlier order rejecting his first anticipatory bail plea, in which the court directed the petitioner to surrender before the trial court and seek regular bail in terms of the decision in Satender Kumar Antil v. CBI.
The top court said such a direction was wholly without jurisdiction and said that if a court chooses to reject anticipatory bail, it may do so, but it cannot compel the accused to surrender.
