Five jail staffers suspended

He said that based on the preliminary report,a departmental inquiry has also been ordered against the suspended staffers.

The main accused in the murder of Chief Medical Officer (Family Welfare) B P Singh,Sachan was found dead in mysterious circumstances inside the Lucknow district jail hospital on Wednesday night after which the government ordered a judicial probe into the incident.

“According to jail superintendent B S Mukund and doctor V P Tripathi,Y S Sachan was found dead in the toilet of the hospital,” Inspector General of Jail V K Gupta had said.

“Prima facie,it seems to be a case of suicide and postmortem is being conducted,” Gupta said.

Sachan was named in CMO murder case as the main accused by police following the arrest of three persons by the Special Task Force on June 17.

Singh was shot dead by unidentified persons on the morning of April 2 when he had gone out for a walk.

Sachan was arrested immediately after Singh’s murder when the investigating agencies detected swindling of funds to the tune of several crore of rupees in the implementation of the National Rural Health Mission in Uttar Pradesh.

Sachan’s name was also linked to the murder of another CMO (Family Welfare) Vinod Kumar Arya who was shot dead in October last year.

Autopsy videographed,HC wants viscera preserved

The authorities on Thursday videographed the autopsy of Deputy CMO Y S Sachan,who died in the Luckow jail in mysterious circumstances,even as the High Court directed that his viscera be preserved. The post-mortem findings have not been disclosed yet. “The post mortem of doctor Sachan was conducted by a panel of five doctors and the entire procedure has been videographed,” officials sources said here.

Demanding a second autopsy,Sachan’s wife raised doubts over the suicide theory of the police.

“After the post mortem,the body has been handed over to Sachan’s family members,” the sources said. Meanwhile,the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court has directed that viscera of Sachan be preserved. The order was passed by a division bench of justices Shabihul Hasnain and Vedpal on an application seeking a direction that post-mortem of the Dy CMO be conducted either outside the state or by a panel of doctors from other state and that viscera be preserved.

Sachan’s brother demands CBI probe

The brother of deputy Chief Medical Officer Y S Sachan,who allegedly committed suicide inside jail,has demanded a CBI probe into his death. “I want a CBI probe into the murder of my brother…He has been murdered,” R K Sachan,elder brother of the Deputy CMO,told reporters. “Have you ever heard of anyone hanging from his belt…My brother was innocent”,he said.