PATNA, Aug. 19 -- The administration of the Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (IGIMS) on Monday located the photocopy of its director's service book, sought by the CBI in connection with the issue of OBC non-creamy layer certificate (NCL) to his son that the latter was allegedly not eligible for, and decided to depute its chief administrative officer (CAO) to hand over its certified copy to the investigating agency on August 22, said officials. The original service book of IGIMS director Dr Bindey Kumar is with Patna's All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), his parent organisation, said people familiar with the matter. Earlier in the day on Monday, IGIMS medical superintendent Dr Manish Mandal, who the CBI wrote to for the service book on August 11, requested Dr Om Kumar, the dean (academics) and also the custodian of service books of its faculty members, to nominate an officer for submitting the documents to the CBI. The CBI has asked the IGIMS to provide the documents through an officer conversant with service files and whose statement it could record. Dr Mandal and Dr Kumar could not be contacted, and did not respond to this reporter's text message, seeking a response. The administrative wing of the IGIMS, under its deputy director (administration), was earlier the custodian of service files of its faculty members. The responsibility, however, was shifted to the dean (academics), a few months after Dr Kumar joined the IGIMS as its director in October 2022 on deputation from AIIMS-Patna. The CBI has asked the IGIMS to provide the service books of its director and Dr Prem Kumar, former professor and head of the department of radiology, in connection with their children procuring OBC non-creamy layer certificates (NCL), to which they were allegedly not entitled to, and using them to secure a job each at AIIMS-Patna. Dr Prem was the dean (academics), in addition to heading the department of radiodiagnosis, and Dr Bindey was the professor and head of the department of paediatric surgery at AIIMS Patna when their children got placement at the institute, said officials. The two accused in the case, Dr Kumar Harsheet Raj, son of Dr Bindey Kumar, and Dr Kumar Siddharth, son of Dr Prem Kumar, have since resigned from AIIMS. Dr Raj, a tutor in forensic medicine and toxicology (FMT), and Dr Kumar Siddharth, an assistant professor in physiology, resigned from AIIMS-Patna last year. The parents of the accused had earlier worked at IGIMS, before they resigned and moved to AIIMS-Patna, after it came up in 2012. While Dr Prem superannuated from AIIMS last year, Dr Bindey returned to the IGIMS on deputation of five years from AIIMS in October 2022. Patna high court lawyer Satyendra Kumar had complained to the CBI about the OBC-NCL certificates on December 23, 2024, following which the CBI instituted an FIR on August 4. On August 17, he also urged the Bihar government to remove Dr Kumar as the director of IGIMS and acting vice-chancellor of the Bihar University of Health Sciences, as he was likely to influence the probe. Dr Bindey refrained from offering comments in the case, saying the matter was subjudice....