CBI files FIR against Jalappa for corruptionRecords in two notepads seized by I-T officials
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R L Jalappa
The Anti-Corruption Branch of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed an FIR against R L Jalappa, Congress leader and chairman of Sri Devaraj Urs Academy for Higher Education and Research (SDUAHER), and college secretary G H Nagaraj for bribing to officials of Medical Council of India to increase the intake for various courses in his college.
The CBI also filed an FIR against four MCI officials, S Ajai Kumar, Deputy Director General of Health Services, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Dr G Narendra Reddy, Professor at Kurnool Medical College, Dr SR Wakode, Professor, and Dr Shankar Rao Chavan, government medical college, Nanded, who were booked for receiving the bribe.
The accused, allegedly accepted cash and gifts to “illegally consider alloting more seats to Sri Devaraj Educational Trust for backward lasses, in Kolar to courses such as MBBS, MD and MS conducted by the said college”, CBI sources said.
The CBI stated in the FIR that Sri Devaraj Urs Education Trust has submitted a representation to MCI to increase the seats in 2013 and when these four officials inspected the institution 29 times on various occasions, the trust had allegedly paid them huge money and gifts. All these details were written in the two notebooks by college accountant Goli Srinivas. A notebook containing such information was confiscated during IT raids.
It was during the raids conducted by Income Tax Department officials from Bengaluru on Sri Devaraj Urs institutions where two notepads were found that huge amount in cash and gift articles have been paid by the trust to the MCI inspectors to permit enhancement of the seats to various courses. The CBI further stated in the FIR that, on May 10, 2013, S Ajay Kumar stayed in Capitol Hotel, Srinivas paid Rs 5 lakh to him by going with then-principal Saanikoppa.
In the same year on November 20, he went with college administrator Ashok Narayana Gowda to Kurnool and paid Rs 10 lakh to G Narendra Reddy and all these details were written in the notepad by Srinivas and he had confessed these things during the IT raid, FIR stated.
The CBI also filed an FIR against four MCI officials, S Ajai Kumar, Deputy Director General of Health Services, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Dr G Narendra Reddy, Professor at Kurnool Medical College, Dr SR Wakode, Professor, and Dr Shankar Rao Chavan, government medical college, Nanded, who were booked for receiving the bribe.
The accused, allegedly accepted cash and gifts to “illegally consider alloting more seats to Sri Devaraj Educational Trust for backward lasses, in Kolar to courses such as MBBS, MD and MS conducted by the said college”, CBI sources said.
The CBI stated in the FIR that Sri Devaraj Urs Education Trust has submitted a representation to MCI to increase the seats in 2013 and when these four officials inspected the institution 29 times on various occasions, the trust had allegedly paid them huge money and gifts. All these details were written in the two notebooks by college accountant Goli Srinivas. A notebook containing such information was confiscated during IT raids.
It was during the raids conducted by Income Tax Department officials from Bengaluru on Sri Devaraj Urs institutions where two notepads were found that huge amount in cash and gift articles have been paid by the trust to the MCI inspectors to permit enhancement of the seats to various courses. The CBI further stated in the FIR that, on May 10, 2013, S Ajay Kumar stayed in Capitol Hotel, Srinivas paid Rs 5 lakh to him by going with then-principal Saanikoppa.
In the same year on November 20, he went with college administrator Ashok Narayana Gowda to Kurnool and paid Rs 10 lakh to G Narendra Reddy and all these details were written in the notepad by Srinivas and he had confessed these things during the IT raid, FIR stated.