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NEW DELHI, Apr 18: After Dr RN Dass, the Delhi Government's Vigilance Department has issued notices to Central Procurement Agency's (CPA) Head of Office (HOO) Dr Nitin Kumar and (SO) Urmila and Department of Consumers' (DCA) District Health Society (DHS) SK Verma regarding 'the management of the tenders in favour of a particular family in different company names'.
In a show-cause notice issued on Monday by the Vigilance Department, it said, Nitin Kumar, Urmila, and SK Verma were in the forefront in managing the tenders in favour of a particular family in different company names, and the conspiracy was hatched in the backdrop of COVID crisis. The COVID crisis was used as a reason and basis to swindle crores of Rupees from public exchequer, the notice alleged.
"Out of the 24 participants only 3 were technically qualified by the committees headed by R.N. Das (who was OSD to the then Health Minister Satyender Jain and Presently OSD to Health Minister Saurabh Bhardwaj). Qualified participants were, Pharma Surge Impex, Pharmatek India, and Tirupati Medilines Pvt Ltd, and the committee rejected bids of remaining 21 companies," the show cause notice stated.
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