September 28, 2012 8:22 PM

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UP NRHM scam: CBI files closure report in Dty.CMO Sachan death case

The CBI today filed the closure report in the Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Medical Officer Dr YS Sachan death case in the Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court .

The CBI in its closure report
has concluded that Dr Sachan's death is a case of suicide based on the forensic report .

The CBI closure report says that no evidence suggesting that the death was a murder has been found.

Sachan, the former deputy Chief Medical Officer of Lucknow, was found dead in a jail toilet in 2011. He was accused of the involvement in the murder of two former CMOs in connection with the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) scam.

Two ministers in former chief minister Mayawati's regime, Babu Singh Kushwaha and Anant Mishra, had resigned on moral grounds after the NRHM scam was unearthed and the deaths of two chief medical officers and Dr Sachan.

Sachan was the prime accused in Family Welfare CMO Dr BP Singh's murder case. Singh was shot dead by unidentified persons on April 2, 2011 when he had gone out for a walk.

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