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Uttar Pradesh healthcare scam: Engineer shoots himself
Monday January 23, 2012 07:01:00 PM,
IANS
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Lucknow:
The multi-crore National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) scam in Uttar
Pradesh turned murkier Monday when a 55-year-old engineer, under
probe for his alleged involvement in the case, shot himself dead
with his revolver.
Sunil Kumar Verma was engaged in construction work under the NHRM.
He was rushed to a private hospital close to his house, and then
taken to the trauma centre of a medical college where he was
declared "dead".
Verma was working as project manager of a subsidiary construction
agency of Uttar Pradesh Jal Nigam. The agency was awarded
contracts for construction and repair of primary health centres in
rural areas.
While the agency's managing director P.K. Jain is already under
custody of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which is
probing the Rs.8,000-crore scam, Verma was also questioned by the
agency a few days ago. According to sources close to him, Verma
was worried that the CBI would arrest him soon.
Describing Verma as "among the key accused", the CBI did not rule
out the possibility of his arrest over the next few days.
Meanwhile, Lucknow's Deputy Inspector General of Police D.K.
Thakur claimed to have discovered a suicide note left behind by
Verma, in which he has described himself as an upright man.
"I am an honest worker and have not indulged in any kind of
bungling; but CBI is out to frame me in the case, so I have no
choice but to end my life." he is said to have written in his
suicide note.
The note, according to Thakur, also adds, "I hold no one other
than myself responsible for taking this decision to commit
suicide."
Verma was the fourth person to have lost his life in connection
with the NRHM scam. Three chief medical officers of Lucknow were
killed, allegedly on account of various issues related to gross
irregularities in execution of the NRHM in the country's most
populous state.
Health services in the state are in a shambles. However, far from
being put to good use, the huge funds flowing in from NRHM were
plundered with impunity, according to investigators.
A CAG probe into the scam revealed that besides huge kickbacks,
crores of rupees were pilfered through fake invoices, false
payments and dummy supply of equipment and medicines.
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