The State Health department has lodged a case against independent MLA Saryu
Roy under various sections of Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Official Secrets Act at
Doranda police station for allegedly leaking official documents.
The Health department is headed by Banna Gupta, who is under fire from Roy for
allegedly misusing his office and disbursing Covid incentives equivalent to one
month’s basic salary to 60 employees (including him) illegally and unethically.
The case has been filled by Health department undersecretary Vijay Verma and he
has been booked under various sections of Official Secret Act 1923 besides 409
(criminal breach of trust by public servant), 420 (cheating and thereby dishonestly
inducing delivery of property), 379 (theft), 120( conspiracy) among others of IPC.
It has been alleged that Roy stole secret documents from the health department and
made it public.
Confirming the development, City SP Anhsuman Kumar said, “Yes an FIR has
been lodged against Roy.” But, he refused to divulge more details.
Meanwhile, Roy termed the Government act as ‘foolish’ and ‘novice’. He said that
documents which he had made public can be obtained through the Right to
Information Act. He further said, “Government can lodge an FIR and can even
arrest me, but I am not scared of such acts of government. I have been fighting
against corruption since 1982 and will do so in future too.”
Sources said that this is not for the first time that any minister is under fire from
Roy. Saryu Roy was one of the key whistleblowers in the Rs 900 crore fodder
scam. He along with others including Shivanand Tiwari, who is presently with
RJD had brought charges of corruption against Lalu Prasad in Rs 900 crore fodder
scam in early nineties.
When Roy was with BJP he had questioned his own government. He had filed a
petition against the state mining department, state advocate general, Moharda
water project and even raised the drainage and sewerage project by Singapore-
based Meinhardt (Singapore) Pte Ltd in the state capital of Ranchi.
Later, Roy was removed from BJP for contesting against then Chief Minister
Raghubar Das.
After quitting the BJP after being denied a party ticket, Saryu Roy beat former
Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das in the Jamshedpur (East) constituency in
2019.