UP health scam: Deputy CMO Y S Sachan had threatened to expose those behind murder of CMOs

NEW DELHI: Deputy Chief Medical Officer Y S Sachan, who was found dead in Lucknow prison under mysterious circumstances in 2011, had allegedly threatened to expose the people behind the murders of two CMOs -- BP Singh and V K Arya -- through a letter written 10 days before his death.

The letter purportedly written by Sachan to another accused the then CMO A K Shukla was handed over to jail authorities to be dispatched to Shukla but it was never done, CBI sources said.

The letter recovered by the agency has come as a new development in the case and CBI is likely to recommend strict action against jail officials who could be allegedly involved in the case, they said.

They said Sachan has said in the purported letter that he was under depression and if he does not get out of jail, he might reveal the names of the persons allegedly behind the murders of two CMOs.

However, the agency sources said so far their probe has revealed that wounds found on the body Sachan were self-inflicted and it might file a closure report in connection with the case soon.

Sources said the agency besides relying on circumstantial and forensic evidence had also carried out some "unconventional" methods to get to the bottom of the case but could not find anything which indicate that Sachan's death was a murder.

Arrested on charges of embezzling National Rural Health Mission funds, 52-year-old Sachan was also named as the key conspirator in the murder of CMO B P Singh.

Sachan's body was found with multiple injuries in the jail hospital toilet on June 22, 2011.

The state government and police had initially claimed Sachan committed suicide but a judicial probe concluded that it was prima facie a case of murder.