Bengaluru reported over 20,000 new COVID-19 cases in 24 hours on Tuesday evening (File)
Bengaluru:
Two people have been arrested, and others are being questioned, after BJP Bengaluru South MP Tejasvi Surya accused city municipal officials of accepting bribes to allot hospital beds in the city - a precious commodity as the Covid pandemic rages.
The arrested have been identified as Rohit and Netra; they allegedly charged between Rs 25,000 and Rs 50,000 for a bed, and police recovered Rs 1.05 lakh from their bank account.
Mr Surya had alleged that a nexus of BBMP officials and frontline health workers is conspiring to buy these beds after snatching them away from people who were dying without ICU care.