Fodder scam accused launches website (http://www.fodderscamtruth.com)

PATNA: It's quite common to hear politicians talking about going to people's court. For a change, a retired Bihar-cadre IAS officer has tried to
do the same by launching a website to share his take on the fodder scam that rocked the state in 1990s and of which he is an accused.

Kadalkaraj Arumugham, the 1966 batch officer, spent several months in jail as an accused in six of the scam cases. Five years after his retirement, he has got http://www.fodderscamtruth.com launched by none other than BJP leader Saryu Rai who was one of the petitioners seeking the Patna High Court intervention for a CBI probe into the scam.

Incidentally, the website also contains a list of politicians, including those belonging to NDA, who are alleged to have been beneficiaries of the scam money.

"I agreed to launch the website as I played a major role in bringing this scam to the notice of people," Rai told TOI over phone on Saturday. He said the CBI failed to do justice with the scam cases as it could not get RJD supremo Lalu Prasad convicted even in a single case.

Rai, however, made it clear that he did not agree with parts of the contents on the site. "My views have also been posted on the website," he said.

Arumugham said he chose to launch the website because he failed to get justice. "It was a friend of mine who gave me the idea to launch the website if I wanted to reach out to the people of the country," he said, adding he has now the satisfaction that people would know "the whole truth".

Source : Times of India