New Delhi: CBI indicts AIIMS director for corruption
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New Delhi : CBI has written to the Chief Vigilance Officer, Health ministry asking the department to investigate and take necessary action against the director, Dr MC Mishra, whose name has come in two corruption cases of alleged illegal purchases over the years at AIIMS
The first corruption case goes back to the year 2014, when CBI wrote to Health ministry in a report alleging equipment worth more than Rs 60 lakh had been purchased without tendering from particular companies over several years in the surgery department of which Mishra was a head at that time. The CBI asked the CVO, health ministry/AIIMS to investigate the matter and refer it back to CBI in case criminality arises.
In response to this, a 4 member committee was set up by Mishra at AIIMS to look into the matter. Things went murkier when one of the committee member's name , Dr Gupta has come up in the second case of alleged corruption at the Apex Institute.
The second of the cases, which had come to highlight in October 2015, pertains to the purchase of disinfectants at AIIMS. As reported by Business Standard, the report alleged that an assistant store manager of the JPNA Trauma Centre of AIIMS, T R Mahajan, with additional professor at the trauma centre Amit Gupta, illegally procured disinfectants - with the approval of M C Mishra - worth around Rs 20 lakh from a firm, Drishti Medicos and Surgicals, floated by Mahajan's son and daughter-in-law. Moreover, it is alleged that since disinfectants are generic items, are tendered and hence are procured at lesser rate, they were further declared as proprietary items insuring higher rates and exclusivity to the supplier. It is alleged both Gupta and Mishra "lapsed" in their duties and approved the "proprietary certificate" used by Mahajan without due diligence . Moreover, CBI also contains a written admission by Mahajan saying that Drishti Medicos is owned by his son, making corruption charges more likely.
The first corruption case goes back to the year 2014, when CBI wrote to Health ministry in a report alleging equipment worth more than Rs 60 lakh had been purchased without tendering from particular companies over several years in the surgery department of which Mishra was a head at that time. The CBI asked the CVO, health ministry/AIIMS to investigate the matter and refer it back to CBI in case criminality arises.
In response to this, a 4 member committee was set up by Mishra at AIIMS to look into the matter. Things went murkier when one of the committee member's name , Dr Gupta has come up in the second case of alleged corruption at the Apex Institute.
The second of the cases, which had come to highlight in October 2015, pertains to the purchase of disinfectants at AIIMS. As reported by Business Standard, the report alleged that an assistant store manager of the JPNA Trauma Centre of AIIMS, T R Mahajan, with additional professor at the trauma centre Amit Gupta, illegally procured disinfectants - with the approval of M C Mishra - worth around Rs 20 lakh from a firm, Drishti Medicos and Surgicals, floated by Mahajan's son and daughter-in-law. Moreover, it is alleged that since disinfectants are generic items, are tendered and hence are procured at lesser rate, they were further declared as proprietary items insuring higher rates and exclusivity to the supplier. It is alleged both Gupta and Mishra "lapsed" in their duties and approved the "proprietary certificate" used by Mahajan without due diligence . Moreover, CBI also contains a written admission by Mahajan saying that Drishti Medicos is owned by his son, making corruption charges more likely.
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