AIIMS hiring scam: CID visits BJP MLA’s house

KOLKATA: Criminal Investigation Department (CID) officials on Wednesday went to the house BJP MLA, Bankim Ghosh in connection with the AIIMS recruitment scam case.

It was alleged that Bankim had influenced the AIIMS authority to recruit his daughter-in-law Anusua Ghosh.

MLA Bankura had also allegedly done the same thing to arrange job for his daughter.

A resident of Murshidabad had lodged a complaint in this regard following which CID took over the investigation. Manusia and Dana’s daughter were summoned by the CID for interrogation which they had skipped.

Following that, on Wednesday a four-member CID team went to Bankim’s house.

But none of them were at home. CID officers waited for a few hours and left.

Earlier, an FIR was filed based on the complaint lodged by job aspirant Sariful Islam on May 20 at the Kalyani Police Station naming Union minister of State for Education Subhas Sarkar, MP Jagannath Sarkar, MLA of Chakdah, Bankim Chandra Ghosh, MLA of Bankura, Niladri Sekhar Dana and four others.

Police registered an FIR on charges 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.

According to sources, the complainant alleged that the BJP leaders misused their position to arrange jobs for people close to them at Kalyani AIIMS.

The Director of AIIMS Kalyani, Ramji Singh is one of the accused persons in the FIR filed in the case.