The Vigilance Department has claimed he was appointed as Senior Resident on ad-hoc basis, even though there was no proposal to hire an SR and no such post was available
In what could signal more strife between the Aam Aadmi Party-led Delhi government and the Bharatiya Janata Party at the Centre, Officer on Special Duty (OSD) to Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain, Dr Nikunj Aggarwal, was booked under the conspiracy and corruption charges by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday. The agency filed an FIR against Dr Aggarwal, Senior Resident at Chacha Nehru Bal Chikitsalya Hospital, and Anup Mohta, Director of the hospital and Head of the Department of Pediatric Surgery.The FIR was registered on the basis of a complaint by Delhi government’s Deputy Secretary (Vigilance) K S Meena, who alleged that Aggarwal was appointed through malpractice. The Vigilance Department has claimed he was appointed as Senior Resident on ad-hoc basis, even though there was no proposal to hire an SR and no such post was available.
“No advertisement was issued by the hospital for selection of Dr Aggarwal as SR. No walk-in interview was conducted for the purpose,” the complaint, which is now part of the FIR, read. The duo has been booked under under Sections 120-B and 12(2) read with 13 (1)(d) of the PC Act, along with other unknown officials of the Delhi government, CBI said.
According to the complaint , Aggarwal had applied for the post on the basis of a handwritten application, which he allegedly wrote on a “plain paper”. This was on August 6, 2015, “and within four days (on August 10, 2015) his appointment was approved without following any procedure”, the complaint alleged, adding that Aggarwal’s services were “requisitioned for appointment as OSD to Minister of Health, GNCTD”. The complaint further stated: “As per the Residency Scheme, resident doctors are engaged for working in hospitals, and not for other duties.”
This, however, is not the only charge that Aggarwal is facing. According to the complaint, Aggarwal was nominated for a training programme at IIM Ahmedabad and his name was also proposed for being in the official delegation for a trip to Beijing. Both the moves, according to the Vigilance Department, contradicted the residency norms. “As per the residency scheme, there is no provision for participation in such types of training and re-imbursement of registration fee/TA/DA for the purpose,” it said.
The move is likely to heighten the tension between the AAP and the Centre, which have found each other at loggerheads on multiple occasions. It is also not the first time that CBI has taken up a case against the Delhi government officials, prompting the AAP leadership to accuse the agency of working at the behest of the Central government. In a major flare up between CBI and AAP, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had launched a scathing attack on the probe agency, after the arrest of Delhi Principal Secretary Rajendra Kumar.
The CBI had registered a case in December last year, alleging that Kumar had abused his official position by “favouring a particular firm in the last few years in getting tenders of Delhi government departments”. The controversy had reached its peak when Kejriwal took to micro-blogging site Twitter and accused CBI of raiding his offices at Delhi Secretariat.
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