AGARTALA, June 25 (TIWN): Despite getting salvos from the High Court of Tripura (HC), the probe into the multi-crore scam at national flagship programme - NRHM has come to a halt. Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of Unakoti District - Dr. Alok Dewan, accused of misappropriating an allocated fund under NRHM outlay, has managed to comfort in his office but interestingly Dewan along with another Medical Officer of Kanchanpur Sub-Division Choitanya Reang has been transferred recently allegedly to eyewash the people from the entire scam. However, despite the Mission Director had lodged the FIR against the 17 CMOs and the MOs the police failed to arrest the culprits yet today. Congress MLA Birajit Sinha who is also the President of Tripura Pradesh Congress Committee had seek an immediate arrest of the accused persons against whom the allegation was raised for embezzling crores of money under the National Rural Health Mission, a centrally sponsored scheme at Tripura Unakoti District.Sinha threatened that if the police fail to arrest those accused persons including Dewan and Choitanya then the congress would move for massive protest against the inactive role of police on the month of July this year.

The stern voice of Sinha has come, after the police are being found playing a negligent role towards the scam under NHM, Unakoti District.According to the official source, at least five accused officials have already been issued with a transfer order. Kanchanpur Sub-Division Medical Officer Choitanya Reang is recently transferred to Dharmanagar sub-divisional hospital whereas one Sutapa Bhattacharjee is inducted to sit at Kanchanpur.

.Besides, the accused CMO Dr. Alok Dewan was transferred to Kumasrghat village hospital as an in-charge.

However, Sinha alleged that the adjacent of the money shown to the Mission Director is less, whereas the figure might have crossed more than Rs. 30 crore. Birajit Sinha said that the amount of Rs 4.47 crore "is only the tip of the iceberg.” Huge amounts of money have been looted through false utilisation and by doling out cash to fake NGOs. Only a CBI investigation can unearth the whole truth but the NHM director has done a good job. We will monitor the progress of the case."

The source also added that the Kailasahar NRHM Director Dr. Sandeep Mahatme is also likely to be transferred soon, which would by some way or other help the police investigation to droop and would free police from the case. With another major setback to the investigation of the National Rural Health Mission (NHM) scam unearthed at Unakoti District of Tripura the FIR named corrupt Chief Medical Officers (CMOs) and other officers have got an easy way to escape from the entire allegations against them.

NRHM director Dr. Sandeep Mahatme registered complaints against 17 medical officers including Dr. Alok Dewan at the same police station. During the course of departmental inquiry, it was revealed that Rs 4.47 crore had been allegedly siphoned off from 2006 to 2014 by five CMOs and ten medical officer in-charge (MOICs) in the undivided North district.

All the CMOs and MOICs had been asked to submit papers showing utilization of fund but they could not produce till the date prompting Mahatme to lodge FIR against 17 persons. Despite lodging FIR by the state Health Department against the 17 CMOs and other officials, Police applying their own made strategy has been delaying to arrest the culprits. Also it has been learnt that Police in the name of verifying provided documents related to the case is unexpectedly remained backtrack from bringing further development to the scam.