'NRHM probe will continue in spite of CBI's closure report on Sachan's death': Khurshid - India News and Travel Times Provides India-centric and other News and Features

Union Law and Justice Minister Salman Khurshid on Friday said the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) probe will continue in spite of the closure report filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the case related to Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Medical Officer Dr YS Sachan's death. Khurshid said the government was extremely concerned when the unfortunate death of Dr Sachan occurred. "But (the CBI's closure report) it does not put to rest many other questions that arose about what was happening in the NRHM scam. So, those obviously will continue to be probed," he added. The CBI has concluded Dr. Sachan's death as suicide based on forensic report submitted by a doctor at AIIMS. The CBI closure report says that no evidence suggesting that the death was a murder has been found. The 111-page report said no evidence was found of anyone being present in the toilet where the suicide was committed. The nine wound marks on Dr Sachan's body were self-inflicted, the report concluded, and added that the bloodstains at the scene belonged to him. Dr. Sachan, Deputy Chief Medical Officer in the Family Welfare Department of the Uttar Pradesh Government, was found dead in an unused toilet on the first floor of Lucknow 's district jail on June 22, 2011. Dr. Sachan, who was a suspect in two murder cases related to the multi-crore NRHM scam in Uttar Pradesh, was arrested in April 2011 for allegedly commissioning the murder of his superior. The Uttar Pradesh government had earlier in July 2011 asked the CBI to probe Dr Sachan's death after a judicial inquiry confirmed that he had been killed.