Enforcement Directorate (ED) swung into action mode in the the the multi-crore rupees scam in National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) and cconfiscated properties worth Rs 23.54 crores of two accused including former Managing Director of UP Small Scale Industrial Corporation (UPSSIC) Abhay Kumar Bajpayee in New Delhi, Haryana and in Kanpur.
Sources in the ED confirmed that te action came against the two accused for maundering ill-gotten money through the NRHM scam. In this connection, a bungalow in Ashok Vihar, Phase-1, worth over Rs 17.11 crore and properties of Ms Surgical Mediquip Private limited in Sonepat (Haryana) worth Rs 5.50 crore were seized. Both properties are owned by owwner of the companies Naresh Grover.
Similarly, a flat worth Rs 90 lakh in Block-4 of Navsheel Apartment in Cantonment area of Kanpur owned by former UPSSIC MD, Abhay Kuamr Bajpayee was also seized by the ED on Wednesday.
Both Grover and Bajpayee after being accused were arrested in the scam. They had siphoned off phenomenal amount of money in purchase of equipment for modern operation theater under the NRHM. The probe unearthed irregularities to the tune of Rs 21 crore by the two accused who showed a total of Rs 32 crore was spent under the scheme.
Earlier former BSP minister Babu Singh Kushwaha was also arrested in the NRHM scam and the ED has later seized his immovable properties worth about Rs 200 crore last year.
The ED seized his Kushwaha’s property worth over Rs 4.25 crore in Gomati Nagar. The probe pointed that Kushwaha had earned property in his partner’s name. One of his flats at Kasmanda house which is in Saurabh Jain’s name, triplet flats also in Kasmanda (in the name of Mercantile Darpan owned by Naveen Gupta), an office of BJ Entertainment) at lACCFED building on Kabir Roadand a three-storeyed shopping complex on Pusa Road at Karoolbagh (New Delhi) were seized.
Some luxury vehicles were also seized by the ED. The total worth of the property seized by ED is estimated to be over Rs 200 crore.
The ED had registered Enforcement Case Information Report against Kushwaha and 14 others other than the CBI which too had registered 15 separate cases in the NRHM rip off.
It may be mentioned that Kushwaha’s assets were shown on paper worth Rs 60 crore. However, the ED probe pointed that Kushwaha had invested huge money in 10 big industrial houses spread in Kolkata, Delhi, Noida, Ghaziabad etc.
Kushwaha, had also entered into partnership with a former MlA and a MlC while investing money in some companies. Former MlA of BSP from Deoria Ram Prasad Jaiswal was also accused with Kushwaha and arrested and he died recently.