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NRHM scam: 6 officials booked in accountant's murder

—PTI

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati faced the heat on the multi-crore National Rural Health Mission scam on Friday even as six health officials, including the chief medical officer, were booked on charges of criminal conspiracy and murder of an accountant in connection with the corruption case.

An FIR, under sections 302 (murder) and 120B (criminal conspiracy), was lodged with the city police against six health officials, Additional Superintendent of Police Rajiv Malhotra said. They are listed as Dr. J.P. Bhargava, Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Lakhimpur Kheri; his deputy Balbir Singh; Pasgawan Community Health Centre (CHC) in-charge Dr. S.C. Gupta and Pasgawan CHC clerks Rajesh Hans, Kuldeep and Munna Lal, he said.

U.P police had found the body of the 52-year-old accountant, Mahendra Sharma, lying in a pool of blood with severe injuries on his head and face at the Pasgawan health centre area in Lakhimpur Kheri district on February 15. Sharma, who had been reported missing since February 7, is the fifth person connected with the NRHM scam to have been found dead in the last one year after the alleged swindling of over Rs. 10,000 crore of central funds surfaced. Ante-mortem smothering has been stated to be the cause of the death in the autopsy report. Six injury marks were also found on his body.

Training its guns on Ms. Mayawati, the Bharatiya Janata Party said the probe underway was a “farce” and an attempt to shield the real culprits.

The FIR was lodged after the victim's wife Mithilesh approached the police. She also demanded a CBI probe. In her complaint, she alleged that her husband was murdered and suspected the five officials to be behind the crime.