The Madhya Pradesh Lokayukta has launched a formal investigation into former Chief Secretary Iqbal Singh Bains and former CEO of the State Livelihood Mission, Lalit Mohan Belwal, over alleged involvement in a Rs 500 crore corruption scam linked to nutrition food and welfare schemes. The inquiry follows a complaint filed by Congress leader and former MLA Paras Saklecha.
The allegations pertain to financial irregularities in nutrition and related schemes implemented across eight districts between 2018–19 and 2021–22. A report by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), tabled in the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly in March 2025, had already flagged irregularities amounting to Rs 481.79 crore during this period.
According to Saklecha’s complaint, Bains—while serving as head of the Panchayat and Rural Development Department—played a key role in transferring Lalit Mohan Belwal from the Forest Department to the State Livelihood Mission in 2017.