RANCHI, June 27 -- A day after Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) Director Dr Raj Kumar abruptly resigned within 24 hours of a CID raid on the institute's campus, a four-page confidential letter he had written to health minister Dr Irfan Ansari on June 8 surfaced on Friday. In the letter, Dr Kumar alleged that he had been subjected to a year-long campaign of administrative harassment, malicious targeting, and mental anguish, allegedly orchestrated by the health department's additional chief secretary.

The letter, a copy of which is available with Hindustan Times, accused the Health Department of contempt of court, alleging that it continued its inquiry against him and his son, Rishabh Kumar, despite a favourable order from the...