Barely a couple of days after the announcement of elections to Uttar Pradesh assembly, the CBI has summoned two former state cabinet ministers in connection with the NRHM (National Rural Health Mission) scam probe.
Barely a couple of days after the announcement of elections to Uttar Pradesh assembly, the CBI has summoned two former state cabinet ministers in connection with the NRHM (National Rural Health Mission) scam probe.
According to sources, the investigation agency is set to register three regular cases naming several UP politicians, bureaucrats and medical officials for alleged irregularities in spending of Rs10,000 crore allocated to the state under the NRHM.
BSP leaders, former family welfare minister Babulal Kushwaha and former health minister Anant Mishra, have been asked to appear before the CBI at its headquarters in Delhi on December 27 and 28, an official said.
The NRHM scam came to light when three senior health department officials were killed in mysterious circumstances, one after another, by unknown persons.
The CBI suspects that powerful politicians were behind the killing of Lucknow’s deputy chief medical officer Dr YS Sachan and his two seniors, Dr Vinod Arya and Dr BP Singh. It is suspected that these health officials were killed because they refused to help them (politicians) in siphoning central funds. During its one and-a-half-month long investigation, the agency collected several incriminating materials to register three regular criminal cases.
“It prima facie indicates that there were gross financial and administrative irregularities in NRHM’s execution and implementation. These irregularities were committed in award of contract, procurement of goods and articles at various levels. We have collected several documents, which collaborate our claims to lodge regular cases,” a CBI official said.
The agency took the case on the direction of Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High court. The agency constituted a big special investigating team(SIT) comprising 26 officers to probe the scam.
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