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| Principal Dental College Srinagar found flouting norms by carrying out private practice | | Video captured due to sting operation goes viral on social media network | | Jehangir Rashid
Early Times Report
srinagar, Oct 2: Principal Government Dental College (GDC) Srinagar, Dr. Reyaz Farooq continues to be in news and obviously the reason is a bad one. Yet again the medico has been found flouting norms and it remains to be seen whether any action would be taken against him or not.
Principal GDC Srinagar was caught red handed while carrying out private practice at his clinic. Although most of the people know that Dr. Reyaz carries out the private practice, but still then a local video cum news portal carried out a sting operation in this regard. The video has gone viral on social media network.
Despite the fact that there is a clear rule that no Principal (even if he or she is in-charge) of medical college, dental college, medical superintendent and chief medical officer can carry out private practice the Principal GDC Srinagar has been doing the same for years now. The authorities despite knowing about this have failed to act in this regard.
By virtue of the video the picture regarding private practice of Dr. Reyaz becomes crystal clear. The video vividly depicts his name plate at the entrance of the clinic and later on the medico asks the patient (sting reporter) to get an X ray done at an X ray clinic suggested by him also.
In the video the sting reporter says that he is facing discomfort over some time adding that he carried out a root canal treatment of his tooth. He poses a question to the doctor as whether he can put a crown on the tooth with the medico replying that same would be decided later on.
"Let you first carry out the X ray and then only we can decide whether the crown would be successful or not. You should carry out the X ray at an X ray clinic near Police Station Shergadi. Once this process is completed then only we can decide about the future course of action," says the doctor to the patient.
Dr. Reyaz asks the patient to visit his clinic tomorrow with the X ray report adding that there is no need to take any medicine whatsoever. It is an evident fact that Principal GDC Srinagar runs his private clinic in the Government Housing Colony, Sanat Nagar-Rawalpora. He along his orthopedic brother Dr. Munir Farooq has been carrying out the practice for more than two decades now.
Sources told Early Times that Dr. Reyaz draws a fat salary bill of Rs. 2, 59,000 per month but still then his belly remains half empty. He has been virtually 'looting' the patients at his clinic on one pretext or another. In most of the cases patients are forced to change the doctor since they opine that Principal GDC Srinagar is 'incompetent'.
Dr. Reyaz was appointed as in-charge Principal GDC Srinagar in 2004 by then PDP-Congress government in the state. The successive state governments have failed to remove him and he continues to call shots. Supreme Court's directive that a person can remain as in-charge Principal for one year has also been flouted at GDC Srinagar.
Pertinent to mention here that SVO registered a case against Dr. Reyaz in 2012 after it was established that he had purchased medical equipment for GDC Srinagar and GDC Jammu at exorbitant rates thus causing loss in crores of rupees to the state ex-chequer. The multi-crore purchase scandal came to the fore after revelations that came through a Right to Information (RTI) application moved by Tanveer Hussain Khan.
After preliminary investigations that led to the revelation of purchase scandal the anti-corruption court in Srinagar started the formal investigations in the case. The inquiry established the fraud and finally a First Information Report (FIR) under FIR number 33/2012 under section 161 of Ranbir Penal Code was registered against Principal GDC, Srinagar.
The inquiry officer probing the case established that equipment was purchased on exorbitant rates in order to cause monetary benefits to Principal GDC, Srinagar and officials of the company that supplied the equipment. In his report to then Special Judge Anti-Corruption Kashmir, Aijaz Ahmad Mir, the inquiry officer had written that machine Orthophos X G5 DS Ceph had been procured on exorbitant rates in order to cause undue pecuniary benefits to Dr. Reyaz and some others.
After this Special Judge Anti-Corruption Kashmir directed SSP Vigilance Organization to register formal FIR in the case if in his opinion any ground for the same exists on the basis of the findings arrived at by the inquiry officer under the relevant provisions of law. The vigilance organization while carrying out probe also found that fraud has taken place and it was only after this FIR was filed.
The inquiry officer in his report said that he compared the rates of the equipment in the market and found that GDC Principal has paid more for the equipment so that he acquires benefits from the purchase. The rates of the equipment were also presented to the Anti-Corruption Judge by the inquiry officer in a tabular form in his report. |
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