Fayaz Bukhari
SRINAGAR, Apr 5: A botched up inquiry into the issuance of fraudulent Dawasaz Diploma certificates by the Directorate of Indian System of Medicines in the State has helped the perpetrators of the crime to get away with it.
The inquiry ordered by the Health and Medical Education Department (Order No 03/HME of 2014 dated 02/01/2014) last year has proved to be botched up as it has instead of putting question marks on the wrong doings of the officials, defended them.
The inquiry was ordered on the complaint lodged against director ISM, Dr Abdul Kabir Dar, for issuing around 300 fraudulent certificates to youth across the State some of whom were later employed in Health Department under National Rural Health Mission (NRHM).
The inquiry conducted by Joint Director Health and Medical Education Department and Additional Secretary to Government Health and Medical Education has given clean chit to the Director ISM but an RTI has exposed this botched up inquiry.
A list of 994 candidates for Dawasaz Diploma was issued by the department in 2008 and it was later cancelled by Government vide order number 121-HME (GR) of 2008 (Dated 17-10-2008).
Out of this list, 24 candidates were issued degrees despite the cancellation of the list. But the ISM Director has said that the list of these 24 candidates published (as Advertisement) mentioned these names inadvertently.
The inquiry took one Jabeena Bano daughter of Mohammad Abdullah Bhat presently posted as PHC Sheeri as test case to show that no fraud was done by the ISM Director. She was issued a certificate (dated 17-07-2009) under Roll Number 33 that was held in 2008. But Jabeena Bano is not a matriculate as per the records of the BOSE. The records showed that Jabeena Bano has produced a certificate in which she has shown that she has passed the Matriculation examination in 1997 under Roll number 328422 Session (Jan-Feb). But the BOSE records show that she had repair in Science and Social Science.
The non-Matriculate being provided admission (if at all it was provided to her) for Dawasaz diploma has put a question mark on the credibility of the inquiry report that has exonerated the Director ISM.
Another candidate Majid Ahmad Khan presently posted at JNLM hospital Srinagar has been issued a Diploma certificate by Director in 2008 under roll number 59. Majid Khan has passed his Matriculation on September 15, 2006 under Roll 857470 as per his school records. As per the records of the ISM his selection was not made in 2006, 2007 or 2008 but he has got the Diploma certificate issued by ISM Director.
The departmental inquiry has also given clean chit to Director ISM in entire fraudulent certificate case including that of Majid Khan. Now the Crime Branch is investigating Majid Khan’s case to look into whether the certificate has been issued by the Director ISM fraudulently or the candidate has managed it himself.
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