New Delhi,June 19: The CBI has registered a case against a former Deputy General Manager of ONGC, Jorhat, Assam and nine others in a Rs 45 lakh fraud case related to issuance of bogus Medical Halls.
Accused ex-DGM Bijoy Kumar Shaw and his colleague the then contractual Medical Officer Eashitva Tamuly and the proprietors of eight empanelled private medical shops have been named in the FIR registered on the basis of a complaint from the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation.
CBI has alleged that the group operated in collusion between 2019 and 2022 a timeframe largely overshadowed by the COVID-19 pandemic to misappropriate funds by fabricating medical documentation.
It was also alleged that the proprietors of eight empaneled medical shops claimed false and bogus bills of Rs 45 lakh raised on the basis of fake requisition slips for issuance of medicines without the knowledge of beneficiaries of ONGC and their dependentst.
The CBI conducted searches at the residential premises of the accused which led to the recovery of incriminating documents.
The FIR registered by the agency on the complaint of ONGC Vigilance Department alleged that between 2019 and 2022, the accused medical shops supplied medicines to ONGC and CISF personnel based on slips generated by ONGC's Medical Section in Jorhat, where Shaw was posted.
These slips were created without any legitimate requisition or authorisation from the purported recipients, the FIR alleged. As part of ONGC's internal vigilance inquiry, high-value medicine credit slips and requisition documents tied to 106 medical beneficiaries were scrutinised.
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