Former Acting Director of Ranchi Institute of Neuro-Psychiatry and Allied Sciences (RINPAS) Ashok Kumar Nag was sent to jail after being examined by a medical board on Saturday. Nag was sent to Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) after he complained of chest pain and high blood pressure following his arrest on Friday by Anti Corruption Bureau in a case related to RINPAS recruitment scam where persons not having the requisite qualification were given top posts.

“He was brought here and was examined by a media boards following which he was taken away by the police,” said a RIMS official requesting anonymity. Later, it was confirmed that Nag was sent to Birsa Munda Central Jail till February 28 after being produced before a Special ACB Court in Ranchi on Saturday.

Before sending him to Jail, the Court directed the Jail Authorities to provide medical facilities as per the jail manual. Remarkably, Nag’s anticipatory bail application has been rejected by the Jharkhand High Court along with former RINPAS Director Amool Ranjan and others while allowing the same filed by other accused persons, including former Health Ministers Rajendra Singh and Hemlal Murmu. Later he made an appeal before the Supreme Court, but was turned down.

After the then Health Minister Hemlal Murmu removed Ranjan following objections raised by AG in the year 2013, AK Nag was made Acting Director of RINPAS, but he had to step down within 7-8 months and Ranjan was reinstated to the post on the basis of recommendations of the then Health Secretary BK Tripathy in 2014.

Ranjan, according to the charges made against him, in spite of not possessing the requisite qualifications, managed to become Director of RINPAS in connivance with the political heavyweights.

The FIR was registered by the ACB under different sections of the Indian Penal Code and the Prevention of Corruption Act following a preliminary enquiry initiated on the order of special vigilance court in 2015.

Apart from Singh and Murmu, others against whom the FIR was registered are –the then Health Secretary B K Tripathi, two professors, three associate professors, a medical officer and two clerks.

The ABA was filed in the High Court after it was rejected by a Special Anti-Corruption Bureau Court of Ashutosh Dubey in May 2017.