Ramadoss under CBI scanner for medical college scam
11 Mar 2011
Former union health minister and Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) leader Anbumani Ramadoss is under the scanner of the Central Bureau of Investigation for allowing an Indore-based medical college to enroll students for the academic year 2008-09 despite the Supreme Court denying permission to the college.
Ramadoss was the health minister in the earlier Manmohan Singh government, labelled by the media as UPA-1.
The PMK is an ally of the DMK in Tamil Nadu and is likely to give up a seat for the Congress after last week's alliance break-up and make-up drama.
On 26 September 2008, the Supreme Court denied permission to the Indore-based Index Medical College as a Medical Council of India (MCI) inspection team found that the college did not have the minimum infrastructural and teaching facilities.
The same day, the health ministry gave permission to the college to admit students on the basis of a report given by another inspection team sent by it. The permission was given late in the evening, CBI sources said. Investigators are now probing the role played by Ramadoss.
The CBI searched the house of Ramadoss's then officer on special duty D S Moorthy in Chennai on 21 February and he has also been questioned, a report said.