Uttar Pradesh ayurveda scam

Balram Yadav had allegedly forced officers in the Ayurveda department to release inflated funds

Mulayam Singh Yadav an ex-Chief Minister Uttar Pradesh enters CS.!. drag net in Ayurveda Scam reports the Asian Age, 9 December 1996. The scam which actually began around 1990-91 when Mulayam Singh was the chief minister, was unearthed in 1994, again when Mulayam Singh was the thief minister. The scam was detected when it was found that payments of heavy overdrafts had been made by the State treasury. Agaisnt a sanctioned sum of Rs. 2 crores, the State treasury had paid Rs. 34 crores in an overdraft. According to the C.B.I. sources of the 150-odd firms that were supplying drugs to the ayurveda directorate nearly 54 were fake. These firms mostly belonged to top-ranking politicians and did not exist, except on paper.

 The Supreme Court served a notice to UP panchayati raj minister Balram Yadav for his alleged involvement in the Rs 32- crore Ayurveda scam of 1993-94.
Balram Yadav, who was then the health minister in the Mulayam Singh Yadav government, had allegedly forced the officers of the state Ayurveda and Unani department to release inflated funds.
But when the officers refused, he turned to Mulayam to get those budgetary proposals cleared.
There were allegations that the documents were destroyed or fabricated and notings were made in back dates. The health department had registered a case at Lucknow's Hazratganj police station in August 1996 alleging largescale financial embezzlement in the supply of medicines and medical kits. It was also alleged that the department had disbursed much more than the actual rate of medicines.
For example, liquid paraffin was bought at `110 per bottle whereas the market rate was `18 around that time.
The Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court had handed over the case to the CBI.
While the CBI had charge-sheeted Yadav and then secretary, medical education, R.K. Sharma, they came out clean because of lack of prosecution sanction. Subsequently, the CBI moved the apex court.
The court had convicted and sentenced a person named Subhash Singh to four years in jail and handed a twoyear jail sentence to his father Prem Pratap Singh for supplying medicines and medical equipment by forging documents with the help of the officers of the department in Basti district.
Last year, the CBI arrested Shivraj Singh, former director of the Ayurveda department and attached his property in Muzaffarnagar. The investigating agency has so far filed 35 charge-sheets against over 205 accused.
Yadav said he would reply after going through the notice which he has yet to receive. 'It is a routine process and I'll come out clean,' he said.
But his presence in the government is bound to give a tough time to chief minister Akhilesh Yadav - voted to power in the hope that he would eliminate corruption and crime in the state.
Yadav's name had also cropped up in the multi-crore food scam in UP. He is also an accused in a double murder in Azamgarh in 2011. His son and SP MLA, Sangram Singh, is a co-accused in the killing.. 
Source: Dailymail.co.uk