Videos of tout promising covid bed, crematorium worker seeking speed money go viral

Rajkot: A video clip has gone viral on social media in which a female workers at Chamunda Crematorium in Bapunagar area of Ahmedabad are demanding Rs. 1500 from the people to extricate the dead-body from the waiting queue. In other video that has gone viral on social media, a bribe of Rs. 9000 is demanded by a person to avail a covid bed in Rajkot Civil Hospital.

In the viral video of Chamunda Crematorium at Ahmedabad, some people are arguing with female workers at the crematorium over their demand of Rs. 1500 to extricate the dead-body from the waiting queue for the speedy cremation. It can be seen in the video that the people are not willing to pay the Rs. 1500 and the females are arguing that they are employed on contract basis, and don’t receive any salaries from the corporation.

Three videos regarding touring for beds at Rajkot Civil Hospital have also gone viral on social media. In the first video, a person is demanding a bribe of Rs. 9000 from relatives/friends of a patient for getting a bed at Civil Hospital, Rajkot. The same person is accepting the bribe in cash at an ATM center in the second video and he is sitting on a two-wheeler with number GJ-10-DG-5394 in the third video.

Rajkot Police Commissioner Manoj Agarwal has issued order for further investigation considering the viral video, as informed by sources from police. Officers from Rajkot city Crime Branch and Pradhyuman Nagar Police Station have started searching the person visible in the viral video and other people involved in this scandal along with him. Rajkot Civil Hospital Superintendent Radheshyam Trivedi said that they got to know about this viral video through the media. He added that strict actions will be taken against the people involved in this act and the person visible in the viral video is not an employee at Civil Hospital. DeshGujarat