Suspecting foul play in Sachan’s death, he told the media that this was the fittest case to be referred to the CBI.
After meeting the family members of Sachan, who was from the backward community, Mr Punia alleged that Mayawati government was shielding her powerful ministers in this case. He said, efforts are also being made to cover up the huge bungling in the National Rural Health Mission schemes.
Earlier, the Opposition parties and his family have alleged that he was murdered and both have demanded a probe by the CBI. Even as the government has rejected the Opposition demand of a CBI inquiry, five members of the Lucknow district jail, including the jailor and deputy jailor, were suspended for negligence of duty.
The government has maintained that the Deputy CMO had committed suicide by hanging from the grill of a window in the toilet situated on the first floor of the jail in Mohanlalganj on Wednesday. However, the autopsy report revealed the presence of nine injury marks on Sachan’s body, eight of which were caused by a sharp-edged weapon. He was cremated Yesterday after the post-mortem report was received by his kin. Sachan was the prime accused in the case of murder of CMO (Family Welfare) B.P. Singh.
