Chandigarh : Punjab and Haryana High Court has raised a question over Anti-corruption Bureau (ACB) in Haryana state as regard action taken in nine complaints in which government hospitals under state health department purchased medicines and hospital instruments at much higher prices and has now demanded report in this regard for nine complaints from ACB in the state before 22nd August this year, raising a question why FIRs has not been registered against alleged accused so far. However, former ACB chief Amitabh Dhillon had moved a writ in the High Court that as many as nine complaints related to different districts had been registered.

Information further reveals, during year 2018 when cases of alleged fraud in government hospitals in different districts for the purchase of medicines and the medical instruments unethically at much higher rates came to light and the former Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala had also demanded CBI investigation, get audited from Cag and according to RTI embezzlements of amount worth crores of rupees in procurements of medicines and medical instruments by the government hospitals in three years. According to the complainant, the medical firm in Hisar district from where medicines were purchased when visited at the address, a washerman was found residing there.

Similarly, medical instruments were shown purchased for the government hospitals at Hisar and Fatehabad the visiting team found that the owner of the firm was lodged in Tihar jail at Delhi allegedly manufacturing fake coins and the tender documents were prepared  by him from inside the jail duly signed by a fake person.  It was also observed that a huge quantity of medicines and hospital instruments purchased by the government hospitals at much higher rates from firms and manufacturers having no manufacturing or trade license. It was also observed that some of these firms were found selling general merchandise goods or food products.