CBI seeks prosecution sanction
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, November 08 2011: Twelve employees of Regional Institute of Medical Sciences may soon find themselves being grilled by the CBI, after the agency sought the permission of RIMS authority to prosecute them on the ground that they have been pocketing money meant for the institute.

While Rs 160 was charged for taking one X-ray photograph, only Rs 5 was deposited in RIMS account.

In this connection, the CBI has sought sanction from the RIMS authority to prosecute 12 employees of the institute.

A highly placed source informed The Sangai Express that the CBI has been investigating the anomalies in financial dealings regarding the amount earned from conducting laboratory tests between March 2007 and April 2009 in RIMS.

In the course of the investigation, the CBI established involvement of 12 employees including one LDC and a retired Asst Cashier in the faulty financial dealings.

It was also learnt that these 12 employees swindled Rs 11,19,346 which otherwise should have been deposited in RIMS account.

Even as the swindled amount was recovered from the accused employees after an internal enquiry, the employees did commit criminal activities.

Regarding the modus operandi of the accused employees in keeping a large percentage of the money earned from conducting diagnostic tests for themselves, the source informed that they never took carbon copies for the receipts given to patient/patient parties even though two carbon copies should be obtained for each and every original receipt.

After giving away the original receipts on which were written the exact amounts taken from the patients, the accused employees made carbon copies of the original receipts at much reduced charges.

The manipulated carbon copies of receipts were then submitted to the Cashier and other relevant authorities.

In one instance on November 1, 2008, the accused employees made a yellow receipt of Rs 160 for taking X-ray photograph but in the white cash receipt (carbon copy), the charge for the same test was written as only Rs 5.In this way, the employees kept Rs 155 for themselves and deposited only Rs 5 in RIMS account.

RIMS authority however is yet to give the permission.

It is reported that the accused employees included five LDCs, six attendants and one retired Asst Cashier.

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