Former AIIMS Rishikesh Director booked over alleged irregularities

Written By :  Kajal Rajput
Published On 2025-10-01 06:15 GMT   |   Update On 2025-10-01 06:21 GMT
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Rishikesh: The Uttarakhand Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has registered an FIR against the former director of AIIMS Rishikesh and three others for alleged financial irregularities in the establishment of a Coronary Care Unit (CCU) at the institute.

The tender for the 16-bed CCU project was floated in December 2017, but it is still incomplete.

Apart from the former director of the institute, two other FIRs have been registered against the then additional professor, Radiation Oncology, AIIMS Rishikesh, and the then store keeper-cum-clerk of the institute, ACB sources said, news agency PTI reported. 

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The fourth FIR has been registered against unidentified public servants and private persons, they said.

They were booked under different sections of the IPC, including 120B (criminal conspiracy), 201 (causing disappearance of evidence), 409 (criminal breach of trust), 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing the delivery of property) and section 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act (public servant accepting undue advantage, such as a bribe, etc).

It has been found that the accused abused their official position, conspired with Delhi-based contractor-supplier Puneet Sharma and did him undue favours to cheat the AIIMS Rishikesh and caused wrongful loss to it to the tune of Rs 2,73,29,355.

The accused also made corresponding wrongful gains in the process, the ACB sources said.

The FIRs, which were lodged on September 26, followed raids conducted by the CBI and ACB at AIIMS, Rishikesh, in connection with the case, during which many irregularities and documentary discrepancies were found, reports PTI.

As per a media report in The Indian Express, in the FIR, the CBI said that a payment of Rs 8.08 crore was released to the contractor/supplier of a Delhi-based company on November 1, 2019 and January 13, 2020, by the AIIMS, Rishikesh, against “contingent bill no 1 and 2”. In 2022, the CBI registered two separate cases against faculty members of AIIMS-Rishikesh and private companies for alleged corruption in setting up of a chemist shop on the AIIMS campus, among other malpractices.

The construction of the CCU, in whose name all the alleged wrongful transactions were done with the involvement of the top functionaries of AIIMS, Rishikesh, is still incomplete.

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