Lucknow:
Nearly three weeks after Deputy Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Dr YS Sachan was found dead under mysterious circumstances in a Lucknow jail, a judicial probe commissioned by the Uttar Pradesh government has found that he was murdered.
Dr Sachan, 52, was the Deputy CMO in the state government's Family Welfare department. After jail officials said he had committed suicide, a post-mortem revealed that his body has eight injuries caused by a sharp weapon. Dr Sachin died days before he was to be questioned by the police about a case that seemed poised to embarrass the government.
He was arrested in April for the murder of his boss, Dr BP Singh. The government said Dr Sachan was guilty of corruption, and hired assassins to kill Dr Singh to prevent him from exposing Dr Sachan's financial crimes. The government also accused Dr Sachan of links to the murder of Dr Vinod Arya, who was Dr Singh's predecessor.
The department these men worked for has an annual budget of Rs 3000 crores. Manufacturers who supply drugs and other medical equipment were reportedly colluding with officials in the department for highly-inflated contracts.