The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested a medicine specialist at Delhi’s Bhagwan Mahavir Hospital and a contract worker for allegedly accepting a bribe of ₹1 lakh in connection with tender-related decisions at the Pitampura hospital.
According to the CBI, the doctor was also serving as the nodal officer for outsourcing-related work in the hospital’s medicine department. The agency alleged that he demanded money from a complainant in exchange for ensuring that an awarded tender was not cancelled, bills were cleared on time and objections were not recorded in the complainant’s file.
The doctor was allegedly caught on Wednesday while receiving the money through the contract worker, who was employed at the hospital as a nursing orderly. The CBI said both individuals were arrested after the alleged transaction.
The agency had registered a first information report against the doctor and began investigating the complaint before carrying out the arrest. The case centres on the use of an intermediary to receive the alleged payment and on the doctor’s role in decisions linked to tender administration and outsourced services.
The alleged demands covered several stages of the procurement and payment process. These included keeping the tender from being cancelled, ensuring that bills were passed without delay and preventing objections from being entered in the relevant file. The allegations, if established, would place the case within the administrative chain that connects tender awards, contract management and the release of payments in a public hospital.
The CBI is now investigating whether other people were involved in the alleged demand for money or in irregularities connected with the tender-related work. The agency has not indicated in the supplied report whether further arrests or departmental action have been ordered.
The case brings the functioning of hospital procurement systems into focus because outsourcing contracts rely on multiple administrative steps, from tender processing and file scrutiny to bill approval. The supplied report does not establish whether the tender itself was awarded through a proven irregular process. It only sets out the CBI’s allegations concerning the demand for money and the attempted influence over subsequent decisions.
The arrests also do not amount to a finding of guilt. The allegations will be tested through the investigation and any subsequent legal proceedings. The CBI’s next steps will include examining the tender records, payment files and the possible involvement of other persons, according to the report.
