RIMS Telecobalt purchasing case charge hearing on June 16
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, May 22 2017:
Special Judge, Prevention of Corruption, Imphal West, today, directed CBI to provide the remaining documents and fixed June 16 for the charge hearing of fund appropriation case in purchasing of telecobalt machine against two former Directors of RIMS and four other individuals.
All the accused individuals except Shahid Hussain were present before the Court during the proceeding and the defense counsel submitted that they were not provided the full relevant papers from CBI for further proceeding of the case and charge hearing.
After hearing the submission of the defense coupsel to provide the remaining papers, the Court fixed June 16 for the charge hearing.
The accused against whom CBI Anti Corruption Cell filed a charge sheet regarding the case on April last year include two former RIMS Directors, former HoD of Radiotherapy, Shahid Hussain of King Abdul Aziz road (Jabuli, Saudi Arabia) and Scoot Macintosh of Canada.
It may be mentioned that CBI Anti Corruption Bureau, Kolkata filed the charge against the six individuals before Special Judge Prevention of Corruption, Imphal-West for fund misappropriation in purchasing telecobalt machine for RIMS Regional Cancer Centre.
The charge sheet accused the two former RIMS Director and the former HoD Radiotherapy RIMS of misusing their positions to favour buying the telecobalt machine from a private company which resulted in RIMS losing around Rs 1 crore.