India, March 19 -- In yet another case of financial irregularity in civic hospitals, four staff members at a hospital run by the Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) have been found to have manipulated billing records and siphoned off lakhs of rupees, officials said on Wednesday.

According to officials, the alleged fraud involved issuing patients bills of higher amounts while recording lower amounts on the respective carbon copies thereby enabling staff to pocket the difference.

It is suspected that four staff members at Prabhakar Malhar Kute Memorial Hospital in Akurdi, including one permanent employee and three contractual workers, are involved. The group allegedly siphoned off around Rs.9.25 lakh over a period of time, said ...