Shahabuddin Hospital MD, 2 others remanded

A Dhaka court on Tuesday placed three people, including Faisal Al Islam, managing director (MD) of Shahabuddin Medical College Hospital, on five-day remand each in a case lodged over fake coronavirus (Covid-19) tests and other forgeries.

The other two accused are hospital’s assistant director Dr Mohammad Abul Hasnat and inventory officer Shahzir Kabir Sadi.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Asheq Imam passed the remand order as police produced the trio before the court and pleaded to place them on seven-day remand, reports BSS.

Earlier, on the night of July 20, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested Faisal from a hotel in the capital’s Banani area, while the elite crime busting agency had arrested Dr Hasnat and Sadi on July 19.

A mobile court of RAB on July 19 raided the hospital and found many anomalies there, including conducting illegal Covid-19 tests with unapproved kits, admitting and giving fake treatments to corona negative persons, by showing them corona positive through fake tests and running the hospital with an expired licence.

RAB filed the case with Gulshan Police Station against the three accused and four to five unnamed persons.