The CBI is now closing in on a mafia-don-turned-BSP-MP in the murder cases of two medical officers that were fallout of the NRHM scam.
According to highly-placed sources in the CBI, the BSP MP who is known for his criminal antecedents is likely to be summoned soon for interrogation.
The CBI has already interrogated the MP’s protégé and BSP MLC in several rounds and now has sufficient reasons to believe that the MP was well aware of the plans to eliminate the two CMOs.
The BSP MP has been indignantly denying his involvement in the NRHM scam all along and has been accusing the media of trying to drag his name into the matter.
CMO Vinod Arya was shot dead in Vikas Nagar on October 27, 2010 while his successor, Dr B.P. Singh, was shot dead in Gomti Nagar on April 2, 2011. Both were killed while they were on their morning walk. The CBI sources, during the past one week, have been interrogating former health minister and former CMO individually and collectively. Former CMO was arrested earlier this month and was in four-day CBI remand.
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U.P. offers CBI help to finish probe early
Pramod Kumar
New Delhi, May 21
The Samajwadi Party government in Uttar Pradesh has agreed to provide investigating officers to the CBI to complete the ongoing probe into the NRHM scam at the earliest. The CBI is probing irregularities in the implementation of NRHM in UP during the Mayawati regime.
Sources said, “The UP government has agreed to provide it’s four dy superintendent of police and eight inspectors to the CBI for assisting the agency in NRHM probe”. Senior officials of the state have also assured that more investigators will be provided to the CBI in future, if required, sources added. The CBI, which is facing a severe staff crunch, recently sought the UP government help to complete the NRHM probe by lending its state police officers. Sources said, “The agency wants to complete its probe at the earliest. The CBI is also taking assistance of a senior I-T department official and CAs to probe certain illegal and dubious financial transactions related to the scam”.