Dalit Memorial Scam: UP Lokayukta asks Mayawati aides to pay Rs 1,400 Crores

Lucknow, May 20 (ANI): The UP Lokayukta, NK Mehrotra on Monday named BSP Chief Mayawati's key aide former minister Nasimuddin Siddiqui and her former right hand man Babu Singh Kushwaha as the main accused in the infamous Dalit Memorial Scam. The state government has named the ministers in its report on the Scam and asked for a Rs 1,400 crore compensation from both of them. The Lokayutka has also named 37 accountants and over 50 government engineers in its report. The Lokayukta probing the Dalit Memorial scam case has however given a clean chit to the former chief minister.