A local court here has remanded a Kolkata-based physiotherapist to 14 days of jail custody on charges of cheating an Agartala-based doctor.
Dilip Bhaumik, a gynecologist and proprietor of a local nursing home, had lodged a complaint in East Agartala police station that accused Baichitra Sarkar, a physiotherapist working in ILS hospital at Salt lake in Kolkata, and Santanu Tathagata Pal, a radiologist who runs a clinic in Kolkata had allegedly taken Rs 40 lakh from him for admitting his son, Diptanu, to a MD course (Anesthesia) in a Bengaluru-based medical college six months ago.
But when they went there, the college authorities refused to admit the student.
When Dr Bhaumik returned to Kolkata and took up the matter with Pal and Sarkar, both of them reportedly assured him of returning the money if his son was not admitted in the medical college.
But after he did not get his money back, Dr Bhaumik lodged the FIR on the basis of which Sarkar was arrested on Thursday last by Tripura police with the help of Kolkata police and then brought to Agartala on transit remand, police said.
The court remanded him to judicial custody on Saturday.
The police said they were on the lookout for Pal.
Another FIR was lodged by Sadhan Chandra Dhar of Udaipur in Gomati district yesterday against the duo for allegedly taking Rs 20 lakh for admitting his son in a medical college but failed to get him admitted, the police said.
