
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. ...

06:30 PM, Jun 02, 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

Lucknow: The CBI on Tuesday filed its chargesheet in connection with the murder of two Chief Medical Officers of Lucknow accusing two shooters and the person who hired them of murder and criminal conspiracy. In its charge sheet filed before the special judicial magistrate, the agency has alleged that shooters Anand Prakash Tiwari and Vinod Sharma had murdered the then CMOs Dr VK Arya and BP Singh. The agency has...

04:46 PM, May 29, 2012

Lucknow: The Central Bureau Of Investigation (CBI) is likely to file a chargesheet in connection with the murders of former Chief Medical Officers VK Arya and BP Singh on Tuesday accusing two shooters and the person who hired them of murder and criminal conspiracy. The investigative agency in its first chargesheet in the sensational murders of two CMOs is also likely to name a former Health officer in the criminal...

10:39 AM, May 29, 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: Former Principal Secretary of the health department in Uttar Pradesh Pradeep Shukla was questioned and arrested by the CBI in connection to the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) scam. Shukla has been named in four out of 12 FIRs filed by the CBI in the scam. The CBI has alleged that a loss of Rs 2.78 crore was caused to exchequer in the purchase of 951 computers and...

10:15 AM, May 10, 2012

Lucknow: A packet containing a white substance suspected to be sulphas was recovered from the possession of former Chief Medical Officer of Lucknow AK Shukla during frisking in the jail. Shukla, who was arrested by the CBI in connection with the murder case of another CMO VK Arya on Sunday night, was remanded in 14-days judicial custody by a court on Monday. After being handed over by the police, a...

12:03 PM, May 08, 2012

Lucknow: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday arrested former Lucknow Chief Medical Officer (CMO) AK Shukla for allegedly conspiring to kill two other Lucknow CMOs in jail. Shukla worked in the UP Family Welfare Department and was arrested for financial irregularities in the Health Department in 2011. Shukla was arrested earlier in connection with a corruption case but was later released on bail. The twin CMO murders In...

08:10 AM, May 07, 2012

Ghaziabad: A CBI court on Monday remanded medicine supplier Vivek Jain in 14-day judicial custody in a case related to financial irregularities in the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) in Uttar Pradesh. Jain was arrested on April 23 and was produced before the CBI court after remaining in CBI custody for five days. The agency sought extension of his custody but Special Judge A K Singh sent him to 14-day...

08:09 PM, Apr 30, 2012

Lucknow: The CBI on Thursday filed the third chargesheet in the National Rural Health Mission scam before special court in Lucknow for alleged irregularities in purchase of computers and peripherals in Uttar Pradesh under the centrally sponsored scheme. The agency has charged Managing Director of Uttar Pradesh Public Sector Undertaking Shreeton India Limited, GK Batra, owner of Axis Marketing Virender Goel, and owner of Radhey Shyam Enterprises Neeraj Upadhyaya under...

07:48 PM, Apr 05, 2012

Ghaziabad: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday filed the second chargesheet in connection with the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) scam. According to the investigating agency, former senior Uttar Pradesh official S P Ram violated tendering rules to procure medical kits. Three others were named in the second chargesheet filed by the CBI. This came a day after the CBI filed its first chargesheet in connection with alleged...

07:34 PM, Apr 04, 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: 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