CID takes over investigation in alleged recruitment irregularities at Bengal's AIIMS Kalyani

West Bengal probe agency Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has taken over investigation in connection with alleged recruitment irregularities at AIIMS Kalyani in Nadia district of Bengal, where names of MoS Subhas Sarkar, Ranaghat MP Jagannath Sarkar and Bankura MLA Niladrisekhar Dana have come up.

The CID has lodged a FIR in this connection, based on a complaint filed by one Sariful Islam from Murshidabad on May 20 in Nadia police station, which had started investigation. Sariful, also an applicant at AIIMS alleged corruption and use of power.

Names of four senior BJP leaders, including Minister of State (MoS) Education Subhas Sarkar and MP Jagannath Sarkar, have created controversy in the political circles amid the ongoing alleged Group-C and D teacher recruitment scam in SSC investigated by CBI for the last few weeks.


It has been alleged that BJP Bankura MLA Niladrisekhar Dana’s daughter and party’s Chakdah MLA Bankim Ghosh’s daughter-in law got jobs following recommendations of MoS Dr Subhas Sarkar, sources said.
Niladri Sekhar Dana said, "It is not a service at all but a temporary which she got through a contractual company under AIIMS, Kalyani. She had applied for the same and got through proper process. It is a temporary job.” Chakdah MLA Bankim Ghosh also ruled out such allegations.

The FIR, which names seven people in total, has been filed under Section 420 (Cheating), 406 (Criminal Breach of Trust), 120 B (Criminal Conspiracy), and 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention) of the Indian Penal Code and under various sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act.

BJP MP Jagannath Sarkar claimed, "If it is said that I have given jobs, it is for the unemployed people. I will continue to give jobs to the unemployed people again in future if we are voted to power. I have not taken money in lieu of giving jobs to anyone."

Political slugfest continued unabated among political parties over the issue. “Trinamool and BJP follow the same path. What BJP did however cannot be compared to SSC in any way,” Sujan Chakraborty, veteran CPI-M leader, alleged.

“Investigations must reach a conclusion. It must be transparent,” West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said.
To turn people's eyes away from the SSC issue, the FIR on AIIMS Kalyani is politically motivated, BJP state President Sukanta Majumdar said.

Reacting to alleged AIIMS recruitment irregularities, Kunal Ghosh, state spokesperson of Trinamool Congress, said, “There is corruption in recruitment of AIIMS Kalyani where someone’s wife or daughter has got jobs.”