WB CID begins probe into alleged irregularities in appointment in Kalyani AIIMS

It is in a very early stage, the CID official said.

In the backdrop of CBI probing the purported malpractices in SSC appointments, the West Bengal CID on Thursday started its investigation into alleged irregularities in recruitment at Kalyani AIIMS, an official said. The CID probe is being held following the lodging of an FIR by a person Sariful Islam in May in which he named eight BJP leaders, including the Union Minister of State for Education Subhas Sarkar and MP Jagannath Sarkar, he said.

BJP MLAs Niladri Shekhar Dana and Bankim Chandra Ghosh were also named in the FIR, which alleged that the eight named in it had misused their positions to help appoint people known to them at the Central government-run multispecialty hospital at Kalyani in Nadia district.

All of them have been charged under IPC sections 420 (cheating), 406 (criminal breach of trust), 120 B (criminal conspiracy), and 34 (acts done by several people with a common intention) and sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act, the official said.

Several other FIRs were also launched in the case, he said.

Kalyani Police handed over documents related to the case to the CID sleuths on Thursday.

''We have collected the documents related to the matter. We will sort out how to proceed with the investigation. It is in a very early stage,'' the CID official said.