
The CBI on Monday told the Allahabad High Court that it has sought additional information from the UP Police's Special Task Force to probe into the murder of two chief medical officers in the state and hoped to complete it by March-end if the requisite data is given to it in time. ...

02:06 PM, Jan 21, 2013

Gonda: Chief Medical Officer of Uttar Pradesh's Gonda district SP Singh, who had been "untraceable" since Monday night after being allegedly abducted by Minister of State for Revenue Vinod Kumar Singh, on Saturday said that he has not taken a call on filing an FIR against the minister yet. "I have not taken decision on filing FIR," said Singh. The Gonda CMO had claimed that the former minister had been...

01:41 PM, Oct 13, 2012

Lucknow: Pressure has been building on Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav to check what's being called the return of 'goondaraj' in the state. Interviews for appointments of doctors in government health centres in Gonda have been postponed after allegations that UP Minister of state for revenue and rehabilitation Vinod Kumar Singh threatened and abducted Gonda CMO Dr SP Singh. The UP government says interviews won't be conducted till a...

09:36 AM, Oct 12, 2012

Lucknow/New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is expected to file its closure report in the YS Sachan death case in the Allahabad High Court on Friday. Sources say that the CBI has called it a case of suicide based on the forensic report. Sachan, the former deputy Chief Medical Officer of Lucknow, was found dead in a jail toilet last year. He was accused of involvement in the...

11:36 AM, Sep 28, 2012

Lucknow: The CBI on Friday moved an application before the Allahabad High Court seeking three more months to complete its investigations into the murder of two CMOs and alleged NRHM scam in the office of Lucknow CMO. The CBI, in its application before the Lucknow bench, pleaded that investigations into the cases were on, and it requires three more months to complete the task. The High Court had on July...

08:48 PM, Oct 21, 2011

New Delhi: In another setback to the Mayawati government, Allahabad High Court scrapped the police probe into the murder of former Lucknow CMOs Dr VK Arya and Dr BP Singh and ordered a CBI investigation. The High Court also directed the CBI to start investigations all over again. Dr Arya and Dr Singh, both of whom served as CMO (Family Welfare) at Lucknow, were murdered within a span of six...

05:07 PM, Jul 22, 2011

New Delhi: BJP on Tuesday demanded a CBI probe into the death of Deputy CMO Y S Sachan after the report of a magisterial investigation stated that he had not committed suicide in jail but was murdered. Former BJP President Rajnath Singh termed the case of Sachan's mysterious death as "serious and complicated". "After the magisterial probe report which states that Sachan did not commit suicide but was murdered, we...

09:09 PM, Jul 12, 2011

Lucknow: The district police on Wednesday filed a chargesheet in CMO BP Singh murder case, holding Deputy CMO YS Sachan responsible for hiring shooters to kill him. The chargesheet was filed by Gomti Nagar police station SHO Abhimanyu Dhar Dwivedi in Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) Rajesh Upadhyay's court. Chief Medical Officer Family Welfare Dr BP Singh was shot dead by some unidentified men in Gomti Nagar area on April 2...

07:10 PM, Jul 06, 2011

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10:29 AM, Jun 27, 2011

New Delhi: The Mayawati government on Sunday refused permission to the Congress to take out 'Nyaya' march in Lucknow on Monday against the alleged spurt in crimes in UP, citing possibility of breach of peace. But the city administration has flatly refused permission for the rally. Prohibitory orders have been issued in Lucknow. The Opposition has also accused the Mayawati government of shielding the accused in the case. Senior Congress...

09:14 PM, Jun 26, 2011

New Delhi: Four days after Dr YS Sachan was found dead, his wife Malti Sachan has filed an FIR with the UP police. The FIR is against unknown people under sections of murder and criminal conspiracy. Dr RK Sachan said, "We are happy but not satisfied. We will continue our demand for a CBI probe." And that was not all. On Sunday, the state government's claim that Dr Sachan had...

09:05 PM, Jun 26, 2011

New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati and her government is acting tough on the Congress. The Lucknow administration has refused the Congress permission to hold a rally. The Congress had planned a 'Nyaya Yatra' against rising crime in the state on Monday. UP Congress had decided to take the rally in Lucknow on Monday in protest against rising crime against women in Uttar Pradesh and on the murder of ...

07:19 PM, Jun 26, 2011

New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati and her government is acting tough on the Congress. The Lucknow administration has refused the Congress permission to hold a rally. The Congress had planned a 'Nyaya Yatra' against rising crime in the state on Monday. UP Congress had decided to take the rally in Lucknow on Monday in protest against rising crime against women in Uttar Pradesh and on the murder of...

07:19 PM, Jun 26, 2011

Lucknow: Four days after the mysterious death of Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Dr Yogendra Singh Sachan in an Uttar Pradesh jail, Joint Director in Uttar Pradesh's Medico Legal Department Dr YK Pathak says Dr Sachan's death is a homicide. Dr Pathak adds it was made to look like a suicide as the injuries on his body cannot be self inflicted. Dr Pathak says the post mortem report...

05:14 PM, Jun 26, 2011

Lucknow: Four days after the mysterious death of Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Dr Yogendra Singh Sachan in an Uttar Pradesh jail, Joint Director in Uttar Pradesh's Medico Legal Department Dr YK Pathak says Dr Sachan's death is a homicide. Dr Pathak adds it was made to look like a suicide as the injuries on his body cannot be self inflicted. Dr Pathak says the post mortem report...

05:14 PM, Jun 26, 2011

Lucknow: Four days after the mysterious death of Dr Sachan in an Uttar Pradesh jail, the police is no where close to cracking the case. The post mortem report suggested that he was murdered, but the Uttar Pradesh government has been insisting it was a suicide. What is even more confusing is the contradictory versions that the government and the police have been giving on the CMO's viscera. Uttar Pradesh...

07:56 AM, Jun 26, 2011

New Delhi: CNN-IBN has tracked down Jaunpur MP Dhananjay Singh - a close aide of the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minster Mayawati - who is being linked to the mysterious death of CMO Dr YS Sachan. He refuted any connection with the three murders even as Mayawati faces pressure to take action against him. The Mayawati government is being boxed in over the mysterious death of Dr Sachar in a Lucknow...

06:48 PM, Jun 25, 2011

Lucknow: Accusing Mayawati government of perpetrating 'jungle raj', the Opposition in Uttar Pradesh today demanded dismissal of the ministry and imposition of President's rule in the state. Demanding a CBI probe into the murder of chief medical officers and the death of a deputy chief medical officer, delegations of the Samajwadi Party led by state president Akhilesh Yadav and the BJP met Governor BL Joshi at Raj Bhawan and submitted...

06:24 PM, Jun 25, 2011