New Delhi: Intensifying its probe into the National Rural Health Mission scam, the CBI on Tuesday questioned Chief General Manager of UP Jal Nigam's Construction and Design Services, Bharat Singh, whose project engineer Sunil Verma had allegedly committed suicide in Lucknow.
Singh was among 12 people including the witnesses, suspects and accused questioned by the agency in connection with eight cases registered by it relating to alleged swindling of funds in NRHM, CBI sources said.
He was questioned about various projects undertaken by the C and DS under the NRHM and about the upgradation of 134 hospitals across the state, agency sources said.
The public sector undertaking UPCDS has come under CBI scanner with a General Manager PK Jain already in the custody in the case relating to allegedly causing a loss of Rs 5.46 crore in the upgrading work of district hospitals.
The CBI has alleged that Rs 13.4 crore was given to C and DS, for the upgradation work of districts hospitals which was sub-let to a Ghaziabad-based firm on the basis of bogus and forged documents, they said.
Project Engineer Sunil Verma, who was also named in the case, allegedly shot himself in Lucknow on Monday.
CBI also questioned officials of health department Chief Medical Officers PK Shukla and Shedev Balian who were advisors in the executive committee of Director General Family Welfare for various purchases in the state.
The CAG has in a report strongly indicted the state's health and family welfare department functionaries, middlemen and contractors for allegedly embezzling Rs 5,700 crore of the Rs 8,657 crore released between 2005 and 2011 under NRHM.
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