The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered a case against Dr Bipin Batra, former govt director of the National Board of Examination in Medical Sciences (NBEMS), and different officers over allegations of misappropriation of funds and wrongful appointment.
This case has been registered below misuse and corruption of Rs 50 crore. It is alleged that Dr Batra was illegally appointed as Assistant Controller of Examinations in the yr 2003, despite the fact that he was not eligible for the submit. However, he rose to the place of Executive Director by 2010. Before the submitting of an FIR in this matter, the CBI carried out searches at a number of areas linked to Dr Batra.
The case has been registered below Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections 120-B, 201, 409, 420, 468 and 471 and several other sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988.
Dr Batra was terminated
In 2017, Dr Batra was faraway from the place of Executive Director of NBEMS on allegations of irregularities. NBEMS is an autonomous body below the Central Ministry of Health. After his elimination, an inquiry into this matter was ordered and his companies had been terminated in August 2018. The grievance in this case was lodged by NBEMS, and the investigation report was handed over to the CBI final month.
According to the CBI’s FIR, throughout a seven-year interval, Dr Batra managed to achieve the highest place at NBEMS illicitly, regardless of being ineligible. He was controlling the group’s functioning, despite the fact that he was ineligible for the function. The grievance in the FIR states that a good portion of NBEMS information is lacking and has been intentionally eliminated. Therefore, the CBI has additionally utilized sections associated to tampering with or destroying proof in this case. The investigation report, which is an element of the CBI’s FIR, mentions that out of 15 allegations, 10 have been substantiated, whereas three have been partially confirmed.
“The present complaint seeks to highlight an extremely worrying and sorry state of affairs prevailed in NBEMS from November 2003 to August 2017 and that rot had seeped into the functioning of NBEMS during the said period due to the active collusion, connivance, and complicity of several officers/officials of NBEMS, including one Dr Bipin Batra. The said Dr Bipin Batra, in a short span of seven years, managed to illegally rise to and occupy the top post of NBEMS and was controlling the functioning of the organisation despite being ineligible for the initial appointment and also for the successive posts. There is no denying that this situation could not have been brought about without the rampant misuse of powers by several persons within the NBEMS, which has caused severe loss and prejudice to the organisation and its credibility,” the FIR reads.
