District police arrested a person on Monday night for allegedly issuing a fake appointment letter to a woman for a job at Malda Medical College and Hospital.

Sources said the woman, who is from Malda town, reached the MMCH on Monday afternoon, with Bulbulchandi resident Prakash Saha.

She approached Puranjay Saha, the vice-principal, and showed him an appointment letter that stated her recruitment in the hospital's Group C category.

“I asked two of my colleagues to check the appointment letter and they found it was fake. I immediately informed the police, who detained the duo,” said Saha.

Police, in their probe, found Prakash Saha had taken money from the woman, who is a homemaker, promising her and her brother jobs in the MMCH.

Prakash Saha had then issued her a forged letter which she produced at the MMCH on Monday. Police said that she didn't know the letter was fake.

Blood-sale arrests

Two persons, including a temporary staffer of Raiganj Government Medical College & Hospital, were arrested on Monday for selling blood.

Rama Das, a patient’s relative, alleged that blood bank staffer Haidar Ali asked her to contact Babul Ali, who serves in a private nursing home, for one unit of blood.

“Babul asked for Rs 3,500 for one unit of blood. We informed the medical college authorities, who in turn told the police. The duo were arrested,” said the woman.

Avik Maity, an assistant superintendent at the hospital, confirmed the arrests for illegal transaction of money against blood.

Held with sedatives

Troops of the 174th battalion of the BSF at Hariharpur border outpost at the India-Bangladesh border in South Dinajpur district nabbed Bidhan Chandra Roy, a resident of Dinajpur in Bangladesh on Monday morning, with 175 sedative tablets and 124 bottles of cough syrup.