{
 "no": 70,
 "id": "case-70",
 "sk": 20111101,
 "year": 2011,
 "date": "2005 to 2011; CBI probe ordered Nov 2011",
 "cat": "Public money",
 "sev": "red",
 "title": "NRHM Uttar Pradesh. Health money gone, and the witnesses dead",
 "stamp": "Bodies, then a CBI probe. No political conviction.",
 "human": {
  "v": "Two chief medical officers shot dead in Lucknow and a deputy CMO found dead in jail; <b>five</b> deaths in all linked to the cover-up",
  "est": true
 },
 "cost": {
  "v": "Of about <b>₹10,000 crore</b> released under the mission, the CAG found roughly <b>₹4,900 crore</b> misappropriated",
  "est": true
 },
 "what": "Money released to Uttar Pradesh under the National Rural Health Mission between 2005 and 2011 was diverted on a mass scale. Two serving chief medical officers were shot dead in Lucknow in broad daylight, and a deputy CMO arrested in the case was found dead inside Lucknow district jail in June 2011.",
 "dodge": "The state did not order an independent investigation; the Allahabad High Court had to direct a CBI probe in November 2011 after the second CMO was killed. A minister and a health minister resigned and one was arrested. The CBI questioned the Chief Minister. No political figure was convicted, and the deaths were never conclusively explained.",
 "ministers": [
  {
   "n": "Babu Singh Kushwaha",
   "r": "UP Family Welfare Minister (BSP); resigned, arrested"
  },
  {
   "n": "Mayawati",
   "r": "UP Chief Minister (BSP); questioned by the CBI"
  }
 ],
 "pos": "The state government said it had itself acted by removing ministers and ordering departmental inquiries, and denied that the deaths were connected to the diversion of funds.",
 "alleg": "That the deaths were murders to suppress the case is <em>reported and widely alleged but not established in court</em>; one death was officially recorded in custody and remains disputed.",
 "alt": "An independent probe on the first audit finding rather than after two officials were shot, and protection for officials who were about to give evidence.",
 "estimates": {
  "costInrCrore": 4900,
  "deaths": 5
 },
 "sources": [
  {
   "label": "Business Standard: the ₹5,000-crore NRHM scam",
   "url": "https://www.business-standard.com/article/politics/rs-5-000-cr-nrhm-scam-resurfaces-once-again-115092300853_1.html",
   "tier": 2
  },
  {
   "label": "Deccan Herald: CBI to question Mayawati in NRHM case",
   "url": "https://www.deccanherald.com/india/cbi-question-mayawati-nrhm-case-2151062",
   "tier": 2
  }
 ],
 "resignations": [
  {
   "n": "Babu Singh Kushwaha",
   "office": "UP Family Welfare Minister",
   "when": "2011",
   "year": 2011,
   "level": "state",
   "party": "BSP"
  }
 ],
 "caseUrl": "https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-70/"
}