The NRHM scam triggered a political storm in the politically sensitive state of Uttar Pradesh, where assembly poll are due next year.
According to the CBI sources, the investigating agency has filed two cases in the scam after it got the leads, indicating huge financial bungling, allegedly committed by the state health department officials, in collusion with the contractors.
The CBI has alleged in the FIRs that UP Health Department officials, who were in-charge of funds received from the Centre under the NRHM, acted hand-in-gloves with the contractors, leading to huge financial irregularities.
The officials along with contractors created fraudulent reimbursement bills, in the name of hiring of vehicles and medicine purchases, to withdraw funds for personal gains, agency sources said.
The agency has accused the then CMO A K Shukla, Deputy CMO Sachan, District Administrative Office C J Yadav and clerk P C Verma of cheating, criminal conspiracy, forgery, among other charges, under Prevention of Corruption Act, they said.
Notably, the Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court had on July 27 directed the CBI to investigate the murders of two CMOs and also fraudulent activities in the implementation of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) within three months. The order was passed after the Mayawati government recommended a CBI probe into the deaths of the CMOs.
Sources in the investigating agency say, Central Bureau of Investigation has found crucial leads, linking the murders of two CMOs Vinod Kumar Arya and B P Singh in Lucknow to the alleged bungling of funds meant for the National Rural Health Mission.