HMA Trustee Dr. Murukesan threatened the CBI officials.......

V.P. RAGHU | DC | CHENNAI, FEB. 11

Docs allegedly collected Rs. 1 crore from dental college to increase admission quota

A CBI team has rearrested Dental Council of India members Dr Murukesan and Dr Gunaseelan in a fresh bribery case connected to the DCI scam.

The two were arrested this time for allegedly collecting Rs. 1 crore from the Asan Memorial Dental College & Hospital to increase its admission quota from 60 to 100 for the BDS course.

Sources alleged that Dr Murukesan, who is currently in prison, shouted at the CBI officials and said that he had good connections in the judiciary and threatened to teach the officials a lesson.

“We arrested the two in a fresh case related to Rs. 1

crore they had received from Asan Memorial Dental College & Hospital. Dr Murukesan had received the amount and had given a share to Dr Gunaseelan,” CBI sources said here on Monday.

The Bureau is now looking into details of the duo’s money transactions in recent months. “It is possible that they had collected money from many other colleges as well. We are scrutinising their accounts,” disclosed a CBI official.

The CBI will be seeking custody of the two doctors soon for questioning regarding the Rs.1 crore they allegedly collected from the Asan Memorial Dental College & Hospital, sources said, adding. “Dr Murukesan was very angry during the second arrest. He shouted at the officials and threatened them.” The CBI began probing the DCI scam in January this year after investigators caught Dr Murukesan red-handed while accepting Rs. 25 lakh from representatives of Adhiparaksakthi Dental College & Hospital in Melmaruvathur after he promised to get DCI permission to start a post-graduate course in the college. The sleuths had also arrested the three representatives and the MD of the college.

The CBI later arrested Dr Gunaseelan, another DCI member, besides raiding four colleges and the houses of three other DCI council members in Hyderabad, Bengaluru and Mangalore.

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