CBI to question Mayawati in National Rural Health Mission scam case

September 21, 2015 21:02

Former UP CM Mayawati will be examined soon to unearth the larger conspiracy of the Rs 10,000 scam, the sources said.

The sources said the agency needs clarification on funding of some projects under NRHM in which some top officials including the then Principal Secretary, Health, Pradeep Shukla has been charged by the agency.

It has been alleged that huge sum has been siphoned off by politicians, bureaucrats and doctors from the funds meant for the NRHM, a central government scheme meant to provide health care facilities to people in rural areas.

As many as five persons had died or were allegedly murdered in an attempt to cover up the large-scale irregularities in the case.

Babu Singh Kushwaha, a former UP cabinet minister during the Bahujan Samaj Party rule, was arrested on March 3, 2012 and is still languishing in jail.

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