The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has arrested former president of an academic society of Maharashtra underneath the anti-money laundering regulation for allegedly duping of medical aspirants in lieu of grant of admission to them in an ineligible faculty.
According to the federal probe company, Mahadev Ramachandra Deshmukh of Kolhapur-based Shri Chhatrapati Shivaji Education Society (SCSES) has been despatched to the Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) custody until May 18, 2022 by a courtroom.
As per the FIR, the society belief was given permission to run a medical faculty for the tutorial yr 2012-13 and 2013-14 for 100 seats each year (85 seats authorities quota and 15 seats administration quota). However, the admission regulatory authority, in 2014, rejected the permission for admission in MBBS for the tutorial yr 2014-15.
An FIR has been filed at Satara district police towards Deshmukh and others the place it was alleged that the administration of the society “collected funds in cash from the students for admission in the MBBS course into a college named Institute of Medical Science and Research, Mayani (a college of Shri Chhatrapati Shivaji Education Society), whereas the college was not eligible for the same”.
Despite the admission permission being granted just for 200 college students, Deshmukh fraudulently and illegally collected an quantity of about Rs 29 crore in money from greater than 550 college students as donation within the guise of admission within the MBBS course, it alleged.
Admission was not granted to about 350 college students, the ED stated.
The company’s probe discovered that “various agents were appointed on commission basis by Deshmukh for luring prospective candidates for admission on payment of donation”.
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Source: www.financialexpress.com”