INDIA SUMMARIZED

NDTV has accessed a draft CAG report that points to several irregularities in the utilisation of grants given by the Central government to a trust for differently abled people run by union Law Minister Salman Khurshid and his wife. The draft report says there seems to be "suspected fraud" in the accounts of the trust. The minister is already under attack from activist turned politician Arvind Kejriwal over similar allegations leveled against him by a TV channel . According to the draft report , the central grant of Rs. 71.5 lakh that was given to Mr Khurshid's Zakir Hussain Memorial Trust in 2009-10 for distributing aid and appliances to differently abled people in 17 districts of UP wasn't fully utilised for the purpose for which the same had been sanctioned. The report also says that the trust gave out wrong information to the government relating to holding of camps for the distribution of aids and appliances to the physically challenged. The funds were given t...