Bishop A Dharmaraj Rasalam of the Church of South India was prevented from going to Britain
New Delhi:
A bishop of a church in Kerala was on Tuesday stopped from traveling to the UK at the Thiruvananthapuram airport as the investigation into alleged irregularities in a medical college run by the church was underway.
The emigration authorities stopped Bishop A Dharmaraj Rasalam at the airport in the Kerala capital following a request from the Enforcement Directorate, which is probing alleged financial misappropriation in running the Dr Somervel Memorial CSI Medical College, in the case known as the Karakonam Medical College. Began to be known scam.
Hospitals, medical colleges and all other institutions associated with it are run by the Church of South India or CSI.
Enforcement Directorate officials later met Mr. Rasalam and asked him to come for questioning tomorrow.
A team of the Central Investigation Agency yesterday raided the CSI South Kerala Diocese Headquarters for allegedly extorting huge sums of money from students by promising them medical seats in a church-run hospital.
The director of the Christian Education Board, Father CR Godwin, told reporters that the crime branch has already investigated the matter.
“As I said earlier, 25 people have registered a case against the medical college regarding capitation and the matter was in court. ED [Enforcement Directorate] Would like to know more about the case. We’re happy to clarify, he’s asking the bishop and he’s happy to answer his questions. They arrived at 6.30 am [on Monday] and started raiding. They didn’t inform us earlier,” Mr Godwin said yesterday.
The Kerala High Court in February quashed the crime branch’s report that had cleared the church of any wrongdoing in the case.