The CBI has conducted search operations at six places across Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat in connection with the National Rural Health Mission, NRHM scam after registering three new cases. CBI sources said, the new cases registered are against few employees of Director General of Family Welfare office of Uttar Pradesh and other health officials related to alleged irregularities in the purchase of medicines. They said, searches were conducted at six locations in Ghaziabad, Lucknow, Agra in Uttar Pradesh and Vapi in Gujarat yesterday.
In one of the cases, CBI has alleged that officials purchased medicines from a Rajasthan-based company allegedly at exorbitant prices using funds allocated under the NRHM. With the new cases, the CBI has registered a total of 17 cases in connection with alleged swindling of Central funds worth over 10,000 crore rupees allocated under NRHM to Uttar Pradesh.
The agency has named former Family Welfare Minister Babu Singh Kushwaha and Secretary Pradeep Shukla as accused in several cases. Sources said, they have not been named in the new cases.