The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has formally named all key players in its FIR filed in the pan-India medical inspection bribery racket, revealing chilling details of how Rawatpura Sarkar Institute of Medical Sciences and Research (SRIMSR), Nava Raipur, and several other institutions allegedly benefited from a deeply entrenched nexus between regulatory officials, middlemen, and inspection assessors.

 

The 16-page FIR, accessed by ‘The Hitavada’, has been registered under RC2182025A0014 by the Anti-Corruption Unit-III (AC-III), New Delhi branch of CBI. The report was formally lodged on June 30, 2025, at 7 pm, based on source-level inputs concerning the criminal conspiracy. According to investigators, SRIMSR’s Chairman, Ravi Shankar Ji Maharaj, and Director Atul Kumar Tiwari led efforts to illicitly acquire confidential inspection schedules and assessor identities from sources within the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and the National Medical Commission (NMC). The information was used to stage a controlled, false demonstration of compliance ahead of the institute’s scheduled inspection on June 30, 2025. The FIR outlines how dummy patients were deployed, faculty attendance was faked via biometric manipulation, and Rs 55 lakh was delivered through hawala channels to bribe the assessors for a favourable outcome. The role of D P Singh, then chancellor of Tata Institute of Social Sciences, is also under scrutiny for allegedly facilitating the assessment team’s compliance.

 

The four-member inspection delegation - comprising Manjappa C N, Satish, Chaitra M S, and P Rajini Reddy - allegedly colluded to divide the bribe amongst themselves. According to the CBI, Manjappa instructed Satish to collect Rs 55 lakh in cash from a hawala contact, while Chaitra was promised her share at home or through internal delivery. The FIR lists seven accused from SRIMSR: chairman Ravi Shankar Ji Maharaj, director Atul Kumar Tiwari, faculty member Atin Kundu, accountant Laxminarayan Chandrakar, and staff members Sanjay Shukla and Manoj Kumar. The institute itself - SRIMSR, Raipur—has been named as Accused No. 3. D P Singh is separately named for his alleged enabling role in the arrangement. Sections applied in the FIR include IPC 120-B for criminal conspiracy, 420 for cheating, and 465, 468, and 471 for forgery and use of forged records. Additionally, provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act - Sections 7, 8, 9, 10, 13(1)(d), and 13(2) - have been invoked for bribery and abuse of official position, along with BNS Section 61(2) for public servant fraud. The FIR further identifies Mayur Raval, registrar of Geetanjali University, and Randeep Nair, Techinfy project head, for allegedly leaking NMC inspection data electronically. These leaks enabled SRIMSR to prepare responses in advance, simulate compliance, and project legitimacy it did not possess. CBI officers have characterised SRIMSR’s involvement as ‘central and deliberate’- not peripheral or incidental to the wider conspiracy.