Cuttack, Nov 12: The prime accused in the fake gazette notification scam, Motilal Gouda was granted conditional bail by the Orissa High Court yesterday against Rs 10lakh as bail bond and 2 sureties.
Notably Gouda had been arrested by the Crime Branch from Vizianagaram in Andhra Pradesh for issuing a fake gazette notification. In the fake notification issued in October, 2015, Gouda had asked industries in the State to get the health check-ups of their staff done at one of the five ’empanelled’ pathology laboratories. Based on this notification, he even managed to sign a contract with Navaratna PSU Nalco for Rs 63 lakh. Gouda was also in the process of signing another contract worth Rs 1.02 crore with Nalco when the matter came to the fore and a complaint was registered with the investigating agency.
On November 17, 2015, the State government removed 408 medical officers from government service for remaining ‘absent from duty for a long period unauthorisedly and willfully’ which had Gouda’s name in it.
