Lucknow:
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed its second chargesheet in Uttar Pradesh's National Rural Health Mission (NHRM) scam.
Former state government officer SP Ram, along with three others, has been named in the CBI's second chargesheet.
Mr Ram had allegedly violated the rules to procure medical kits.
Mr Ram, a former Director General of the family welfare department and Abhay Kumar Vajpayee, Managing Director of UP Small Scale Industries Corporation, were arrested for irregularities in January by the CBI.
The third person arrested was Saurabh Jain, a Moradabad based businessman, who is one of the main suppliers who benfitted from the medicine tenders too.
Former minister Babu Singh Kushwaha's residence in Lucknow was also raided by the CBI earlier this year. Mr Kushwaha, a BSP OBC leader of the state, was sacked by Mayawati following his alleged involvement in the multi-crore scam. He was inducted into the BJP, which now has led to a major controversy.
The CBI had registered five cases on January 2 against certain government and private sector officials, including one against Kushwaha alleging loss of about Rs. 28 crore in
implementing the Centrally-sponsored scheme meant for 72 districts of Uttar Pradesh.
NRHM funds to the tune of about Rs. 10,000 crore were allocated to Uttar Pradesh for the period 2005-06 till date by the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry.
The agency has already arrested former Uttar Pradesh Jal Board General Manager P K Jain yesterday in this connection.
The CBI had registered a case against Jain on January 2 for allegedly causing a loss of Rs. 5.46 crore in the upgrading work of 134 district hospitals.
The agency has alleged that Rs. 13.4 crore was given to Construction and Design Services, a unit of UP Jal Nigam, for the upgrade work of 134 districts hospitals. It alleged that the work was sub-let to a Ghaziabad-based firm on the basis of bogus and forged documents.
"The materials installed in the hospitals were found to be of inferior and sub-standard quality thereby causing an approximate loss of Rs. 5.46 crore to the exchequer," the CBI
alleged.
It claimed to have recovered three kgs of gold and cash of Rs. 1.10 crore besides some important documents during search operations at Jain's residence yesterday.