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Publication: Dailybhaskar.com
Date: October 18, 2012
URL: http://daily.bhaskar.com/article/UP-khurshids-lies-nailed-trust-reports-signed-by-ghost-officers-carried-fake-stamps-3940554-NOR.html?HT1=

Trouble doesn't seem to be ending for Law Minister Salman Khurshid as he battles allegations of financial bungling of over Rs 71 lakh in his Zakir Hussain Memorial Trust, run by the minister and his wife Louise.
 
According to a report published in an English daily, 10 out of 17 districts of Uttar Pradesh have now raised doubts on the authenticity of scrutiny done on Khurshid's trust for the welfare works. 
 
The trust had submitted these reports on the check of its work done for welfare of the disabled in 2009-2010 to the union Ministry for Social Justice and Empowerment at the time of seeking grants for 2010-11.
 
In their reports to the Handicapped Welfare Department, officials of ten districts including Etawah, Farrukhabad, Mainpuri, Allahabad and Kannauj have alleged Trust used 'forged signatures' and 'fake stamps' on the 'test check reports'
 
The report also claimed that the reports had signatures of officers who do not even exist.
 
These reports form the basis of the investigation by the Economic Offences Wing of the police ordered by the state government. Interestingly, the EOW of the UP Police had carried out raids in 17 districtsin connection with the alleged scam in distribution of prosthetics to the disabled by Khurshid's trust.
 
The report mentioned Mainpuri's district handicapped welfare officer in his letter dated July 6, 2011 claimed that signatures of block development officer were 'forged'.
 
Similarly, the district handicapped welfare officer of Shahjahanpur informed the Director of handicapped welfare that no such post of block development officer existed and so no verification could be carried out.
 
Incidentally, at a press conference on Sunday, both Khurshid and Louise had denied that the signatures were forged and claimed that all the camps mentioned in the test check reports had been conducted.