CBI denies shunting of officer probing NRHM scam

February 22, 2012 17:19

Our Delhi correspondent reports that the CBI today denied reports of its ace investigating officer AGL Kaul, an additional superintendent of police (ASP), had been shunted out of the Rs 10,000-crore NRHM (National Rural Health Mission) scam in Uttar Pradesh he was probing.

The CBI clarified that Kaul was "not connected with the investigation of NRHM irregularities, but with the deaths of the then Chief Medical Officers/Dy.Chief Medical Officer in Uttar Pradesh."

Moreover, he was moved from the case "as per his own willingness and as per official exigency in a normal and routine manner."

Media reports had claimed that Kaul's withdrawal from the NRHM probe can slow down investigations into the mega scam.

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