An area court docket has issued a non-bailable warrant in opposition to Louise Khurshid, spouse of former Union minister and Congress chief Salman Khurshid, in a case of misappropriation of over Rs 71 lakh obtained in central grants by Dr Zakir Hussain Memorial Trust run by her. Chief Judicial Magistrate Praveen Kumar Tyagi issued the non-bailable warrant in opposition to Louise and Trust secretary Athar Farooqui and stuck August 16 as the subsequent date for listening to. In March 2010, the Trust had obtained a grant of Rs 71.50 lakh from the central authorities for the distribution of wheelchairs, tricycles and listening to aids amongst bodily challenged individuals in 17 districts of Uttar Pradesh.
Later allegations of corruption and forgery have been levelled in opposition to the Trust’s office-bearers in 2012 when Khurshid was a minister within the then UPA authorities. However, the Khurshids had denied any wrongdoing. The Economic Offence Wing began a probe and in June 2017, EOW inspector Ram Shankar Yadav registered an FIR in opposition to Lousie Khurshid and Farooqui in Kayamganj police station right here.
Louise Khurshid was the challenge director of the Trust. The cost sheet within the case was filed on December 30, 2019.
It was alleged that signatures of senior officials of Uttar Pradesh have been cast and their faux seals have been used to obtain grants from the Union authorities for the welfare of the disabled. The belief had stated it had organised camps for differently-abled kids throughout over a dozen districts Etah, Etawah, Farrukhabad, Kasganj, Mainpuri, Aligarh, Shajahanpur, Meerut, Bareilly, Moradabad, Gautam Buddh Nagar, Rampur, Sant Kabir Nagar and Allahabad- of UP for the distribution of tools.
It was claimed that tools was distributed amongst kids and Louise Khurshid had verified it because the director of the Trust in May 2010. However, it was later alleged that camps for the disabled allegedly existed solely on paper.
