Fraud in AIIMS surgery department: CBI files FIR
New Delhi: The CBI has registered a case of alleged irregularities in awarding of tenders in the surgery department of the prestigious All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).
The CBI has booked Naresh Kumar, an Upper Division Clerk at AIIMS and Chandani Jhatta, owner of H S Enterprises, a private firm, in the case of alleged fraud in awarding of 17 tenders worth over Rs 24.17 lakh.
Jagmohan Rishi, a representative of H S Enterprises, has also been booked.The name of H S Enterprises was also red-flagged by the then chief vigilance officer AIIMS Sanjiv Chaturvedi in his report to the CBI dated May 19, 2014.
"It has been found that there is a specific trend that rate enquiries were received from five suppliers and H S Enterprises...invariably emerged the lowest," the report had said."It is evident that orders were deliberately divided/split to avoid sanction of higher authority," it said.
The report had said that there was clear malafide for obtaining undue pecuniary advantages for these firms by deliberately suppressing healthy competition.
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