After three years of investigation, a local special CBI court in Mainpuri has fixed the charges against 10 accused in the Rs 6.37 crore midday meal scam in the district detected in 2011. Special CBI judge A K Gupta, took congisance of the charge sheet filed against 10 accused including two IAS officers, on Thursday. The court had maintained that there is enough evidences to accept the charge sheet filed by the CBI.
The court has now fixed May 12 as the next day of hearing when all the accused, now in judicial custody in Dasna jail in Ghaziabad would be produced. Then District Magistrate of Mainpuri, Ranveer Prasad had lodged the FIR in 2011 into the irregularities of the midday meal between 2008-10. later Allahabad High Court had ordered a CBI probe into the matter and CBI started its probe in 2012.
The accused includes two IAS officer, 2 PCS officers, two clerks and two office-bearers of a NGO. In July last, CBI had arrested Aligarh Development Authority(ADA) Vice Chairman J B Singh It has been alleged that during his tenure as Mainpuri’s CDO, he cooked this multi-million scam. One of the accused, the then District Magistrate Dinesh Chandra Shukla and then Mid-Day Meal District Coordinator Prashant Mishra surrendered in the CBI Court in Ghaziabad last year and thereafter, retired IAS officer Sacchidanand Dubey was sent behind bars after being arrested in lucknow.