The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will go to court to issue a lookout circular against Anant Kumar Mishra, former UP minister and close confidante of BSP chief Mayawati, to prevent him from le
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will go to court to issue a lookout circular against Anant Kumar Mishra, former UP minister and close confidante of BSP chief Mayawati, to prevent him from leaving India.
A special CBI court in Ghaziabad on September 5 had issued non-bailable warrant (NBW) against Mr Mishra after he did not turn up despite summons in connection with a case pertaining to the multi-crore National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) scam.
“Since the court has already issued NBW against Mishra, the agency has decided to approach court for issuing a lookout circular against him. He is untraceable,” a CBI source said.
The CBI had filed a chargesheet in the NRHM case on July 13 this year over allegations that Mr Mishra took bribe from drug suppliers for posting chief medical officers (CMOs) in the districts.
“Investigations have revealed that in his bid to show the bribe amount as white, Mishra acquired two Kolkata-based firms and purchased flats in Delhi’s posh Safdarjung Enclave, Gomti Nagar (Lucknow) and one each in Kanpur and Ghaziabad. Besides, he also bought three commercial properties in Kanpur,” a source with knowledge of the matter said.
The chargesheet, filed under different sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act, also mentioned that Mishra appointed his parents as directors in the two Kolkata-based firms which he bought with the bribe money, the sources said.
Large-scale irregularities in the implementation of the NRHM in UP came to light after two CMOs—Dr V.K. Arya and Dr B.P. Singh—were shot in Lucknow within a period of six months in 2011.
Deputy CMO Y.S. Sachan, an accused in both the murders and the NRHM irregularities at the Lucknow CMO office, was also found dead in Lucknow jail in June 2011.
