Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has said that the state government will do everything possible under the law in the Dalit Memorial scam case in which close aides of BSP chief Mayawati have been indicted.
While Uttar Pradesh Lokayukta NK Mehrotra had said that there is no evidence against Mayawati in the Dalit Memorial scam, he had recommended that the money should be recovered from former ministers Nasimuddin Siddiqui and Babu Singh Kushwaha.
The scam had taken place during the Mayawati regime and had cost the exchequer almost Rs 1,400 crore and the Lokayukta has submitted the report to the Akhilesh Yadav government. Siddiqui and Kushwaha have been told to cough up an estimated 30 per cent of the total costs.
The Lokayutka has named 199 people including 37 accountants and over 50 government engineers in its report. Submitting his 1,346 page report including annexures to Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, Mehrotra said irregularities to the tune of Rs 1,400 crore were detected which was 34 per cent of the total budget for construction of memorials and parks....
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03:40 PM, May 21, 2013
Lucknow: The ruling Samajwadi Party on Monday said that all those indicted by Uttar Pradesh Lokayukta, for syphoning off public money in construction of memorials during the BSP regime, would be punished according to the law. In a statement issued here, SP spokesman Rajendra Chaudhary said that Lokayukta, vigilance and CBI were probing scams of the previous Mayawati regime and the results were appalling. "All records of misuse of the...
01:55 AM, May 21, 2013
Lucknow: In a huge setback for former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati, the state government has named the BSP chief's key confidant in its report on the Dalit Memorial Scam and asked for a Rs 1,400 crore compensation. The UP Lokayukta, NK Mehrotra, has named Mayawati's key aide former minister Nasimuddin Siddiqui and Mayawati's former right hand man Babu Singh Kushwaha as the main accused in the scam. Both the...
04:00 PM, May 20, 2013
New Delhi: National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) scam accused Babu Singh Kushwaha was apparently planning to invest the alleged bribe money received by him into an engineering college and had set up two trusts for the purpose, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) sources have claimed. Kushwaha, who is in judicial custody, had set up two Educational trusts in Kanpur and purchased two private companies to route the alleged illegal...
05:32 PM, Aug 26, 2012
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday conducted raids in three places in Uttar Pradesh in connection with the NRHM scam. The raids were conducted at the residential premises of former UP health minister Anant Mishra in Lucknow and Kanpur. The action came after an FIR was filed by the CBI nearly two days ago in connection with the appointment of nearly 100 Chief Medical Officers (CMOs)....
08:48 AM, Jun 02, 2012
Lucknow: The Rs 5,700-crore National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) scam is now knocking on the doors of former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati. Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) sources have told CNN-IBN that the Mayawati government split the Health Ministry to facilitate the appointment of 100 additional chief medical officers (CMO), who were tasked with just handling NRHM funds. CBI claims that the plan was...
03:28 PM, Jun 01, 2012
Lucknow: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday filed another chargesheet in the Rs 5,700-crore National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) scam of Uttar Pradesh. The chargesheet has been filed against former health minister Babu Singh Kushwaha and BSP MLA Ram Prasad Jaiswal in connection with the alleged irregularities in the implementation of NRHM funds in the state. The matter pertains to Rs 13.4 crore allotted to Construction Design Services...
06:55 PM, May 31, 2012
Ghaziabad: A special CBI court has extended by 14 days the judicial custody of former Uttar Pradesh health minister Babu Singh Kushwaha and eight others, arrested for their alleged roles in the multi-crore NRHM scam. All the accused were brought from Dasna district jail to the court and were produced before the special CBI judge AK Singh on Tuesday. They will now be produced on May 29. Besides Kushwaha, UP...
03:02 AM, May 17, 2012
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate has registered 14 separate cases under anti-money laundering laws against former UP family Welfare Minister Babu Singh Kushwaha and others in the alleged financial irregularities in the NRHM scam. The CBI, which had registered 13 FIRs in the same case, has already filed three charge sheets after it arrested Kushwaha, who was a minister in the previous Mayawati government, in connection with its probe into...
01:18 AM, Apr 18, 2012
Ghaziabad: CBI on Tuesday filed its first chargesheet in connection with alleged irregularities in the upgradation of 134 hospitals in Uttar Pradesh under the National Rural Health Mission accusing five former government officials, two companies and two others in the case. The agency did not include the names of former family Welfare Minister Babu Singh Kushwaha, former MLA Ram Prasad Jaiswal in the chargesheet, who are also accused in the...
03:48 AM, Apr 04, 2012
Ghaziabad: Former Uttar Pradesh minister Babu Singh Kushwaha has alleged that he was "tortured" in CBI custody during interrogations. "CBI tortured us during interrogations for ten days," said the sacked BSP minister, while he along with another accused, former BSP MLA Ram Pratap Jaiswal, were being taken to Dasna prison on Tuesday. While talking to media at the entry gate of the prison, Kushwaha said that both of them gave...
01:21 AM, Mar 15, 2012
Ghaziabad: A special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court in Ghaziabad on Tuesday remanded former Uttar Pradesh Minister Babu Singh Kushwaha and former BSP MLA Ram Prakash Jaiswal in judicial custody for 14 days in the multi-crore rupee NRHM scam in the state. The two politicians, arrested on March 3, were produced in the court after the expiry of their 10 days custody with the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)....
05:05 PM, Mar 13, 2012
Ghaziabad: Two days after former Uttar Pradesh minister Babu Singh Kushwaha was arrested by the CBI in the multi-crore NRHM scam, his bail petition was withdrawn on Monday from a local court. The defence counsel had filed the petition seeking bail for Kushwaha at a CBI court on Saturday when he was arrested by the CBI in connection with the case. The CBI will now produce Kushwaha, who is on...
12:43 AM, Mar 06, 2012
Ghaziabad: Former Uttar Pradesh Minister for Health and Family Planning Babu Singh Kushwaha appeared before a CBI judge and denied his involvement in the NRHM scam. Kushwaha said that he was not in a position to finalise the decisions about allocation of funds and work being assigned to companies and added that there were two core committees for it and he was not the head of any committee. He said...
01:41 PM, Mar 04, 2012
Former Uttar Pradesh minister Babu Singh Kushwaha was on Saturday arrested in connection with National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) scam. ...
06:40 PM, Mar 03, 2012
New Delhi: Former Uttar Pradesh minister Babu Singh Kushwaha and BSP MLA Ram Prasad Jaiswal were on Saturday sent to CBI custody for ten days in connection with National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) scam. The arrest of Kushwaha, who crossed over to BJP after being sacked as Family Welfare minister came on a day when the crucial seven-phased Assembly elections in UP concluded. Kushwaha, who was expelled by BSP in...
05:31 PM, Mar 03, 2012
Lucknow: The Allahabad High Court on Wednesday issued notice to Uttar Pradesh Lokayukta directing him to file his reply on a writ petition challenging recommendation of a CBI probe against former minister Babu Singh Kushwaha in graft cases. The order was passed by the Lucknow bench comprising Justices Devi Prasad Singh and SC Chaurasia on a writ petition filed by the former minister seeking direction for quashing the recommendation of...
07:02 PM, Feb 22, 2012
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Lokayukta Justice NK Mehrotra has recommended a probe by the CBI against former state health minister and Bahujan Samaj Party leader Babu Singh Kushwaha. "There were three complaints against Kushwaha after inquiry into which a probe by either CBI or Director Vigilance after registering an FIR under Prevention of Corruption and Money Laundering Acts has been recommended," Lokayukya Justice Mehrotra told PTI. He said that the report...
05:53 PM, Jan 30, 2012
Kanpur: The newly-created Maharajpur Assembly seat will witness a contest featuring a scam-tainted ex-minister and two incumbent MLAs with their reputation at stake. Newly created after delimitation, the Maharajpur constituency has about 3.79 lakh voters. The field includes powerful ex-minister Anant Mishra who was recently sacked after being named in the NHRM scam along with Babu Singh Kushwaha. Mishra is the brother of another reputed BSP leader Satish Chandra Mishra....
05:24 PM, Jan 30, 2012
Basti(UP): Former Minister in the BSP government in Uttar Pradesh Babu Singh Kushwaha has alleged that he is being trapped into the NRHM scam as a part of a conspiracy hatched by senior bureaucrats. Principal Secretary Fateh Bahadur Singh and Cabinet Secretary Shashank Shekhar have hatched the conspiracy against him, Kushwaha, claimed while talking to reporters on Sunday. He also alleged that some officers in the bureaucracy were wary of...
12:58 PM, Jan 30, 2012
