Dhaka court has placed Regent Hospital’s MD Mizanur Rahman on 10-day remand

CNI Desk: A Dhaka court has placed Mizanur Rahman, managing director of Regent Hospital, on a ten-day remand in a case filed for allegedly issuing fake COVID-19 test reports to 76 metro rail workers.

Metropolitan Magistrate Md Mainul Islam passed the order after Yadur Rahman, a sub-inspector of Uttara Paschim Police Station and also investigation officer of the case, produced him before the court with a ten-day remand prayer on Saturday.

Earlier on Friday night, police arrested Mizanur Rahman from a house in Gopalganj.

On behalf of a sub-contractor of the Metro Rail project, Rezaul Karim filed the case against Regent Hospital Chairman Mohammad Shahed and several others, including Mizanur, for issuing false COVID-19 test reports to 76 workers on July 20.

The hospital authorities had charged Tk 3,000 for each test but the respiratory disease began to spread among the workers after they were cleared to work on the basis of the false reports, according to the case statment.

However, Mizanur was not named in the case filed against 17 people on charges of issuing fake COVID-19 test reports and a series of other irregularities committed by Regent Hospital following the raids on its headquarters and two branches in Dhaka on July 6 and 7, police said.

Masud Parvez, another managing director of Regent Hospital and a close aide to Shahed, has already been arrested by the RAB from Gazipur.