Accused of abducting CMO, Uttar Pradesh minister resigns
13 Oct 2012 1:08 AM GMT
The tainted state minister for Revenue and Rehabilitation Vinod Kumar Singh alias Pandit Singh resigned from the Akhilesh Yadav ministry on Friday after he was charged with abduction of Gonda Chief Medical Officer [CMO] and two others.
Singh said that he has tendered his resignation to the chief minister on moral grounds after a probe was ordered into the incident. ‘The ambit of probe should also include the conspiracy part that has been hatched against me on the matter,’ he told reporters here.
Earlier, Samajwadi Party national president Mulayam Singh Yadav asked the minister to tender his resignation when Vinod Singh met him. The UP government had ordered a probe into the incident in which the minister reportedly abducted Chief Medical Officer Dr S P Singh from his Officers' Colony residence in Gonda. The minister later tried to force the CMO to include names of his associates in the list of contractual doctors.
The State Home Secretary Kamal Saxena had said that the concerned Gonda CMO has gone on leave after the incident, but the family members of the CMO expressed fear for their lives and have demanded security.
Pandit Singh has a tainted past. He was also a minister in the last Mulayam Singh cabinet and was an accused in the multi-crore rupees food grains scam. CBI sleuths, probing food grains scam, also raided Pandit Singh's house.
Reports said Pandit Singh had asked the CMO to include names of his aides in the list of newly appointed contractual doctors under the National Rural Health Mission [NRHM].
He abducted the doctor and took him to his office and asked him to sign on the new list. When the minister went outside to make some calls, the CMO reportedly took advantage of the situation and called the Gonda District Magistrate Abhay Singh and told him about the incident after which ADM CPN Upadhyaya rushed to rescue him.
WHAT HAPPENED
Singh said that he has tendered his resignation to the chief minister on moral grounds after a probe was ordered into the incident. ‘The ambit of probe should also include the conspiracy part that has been hatched against me on the matter,’ he told reporters here.
Earlier, Samajwadi Party national president Mulayam Singh Yadav asked the minister to tender his resignation when Vinod Singh met him. The UP government had ordered a probe into the incident in which the minister reportedly abducted Chief Medical Officer Dr S P Singh from his Officers' Colony residence in Gonda. The minister later tried to force the CMO to include names of his associates in the list of contractual doctors.
The State Home Secretary Kamal Saxena had said that the concerned Gonda CMO has gone on leave after the incident, but the family members of the CMO expressed fear for their lives and have demanded security.
Pandit Singh has a tainted past. He was also a minister in the last Mulayam Singh cabinet and was an accused in the multi-crore rupees food grains scam. CBI sleuths, probing food grains scam, also raided Pandit Singh's house.
Reports said Pandit Singh had asked the CMO to include names of his aides in the list of newly appointed contractual doctors under the National Rural Health Mission [NRHM].
He abducted the doctor and took him to his office and asked him to sign on the new list. When the minister went outside to make some calls, the CMO reportedly took advantage of the situation and called the Gonda District Magistrate Abhay Singh and told him about the incident after which ADM CPN Upadhyaya rushed to rescue him.
WHAT HAPPENED
- Vinod Kumar Singh had allegedly abducted Chief Medical Officer Dr S P Singh from his Officers’ Colony residence in Gonda
- He took the doctor to his office and asked him to sign on a list of contractual doctors that included names of his associates
- When the minister went outside to make some calls, the CMO reportedly called the Gonda District Magistrate Abhay Singh
- ADM CPN Upadhyaya rushed to rescue him
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