Madhav University chairman withdrew Rs 1.9 crore before arrest: SIT

Ambika Sharma

Tribune News Service

Solan, June 28

A sum of Rs 1.90 crore had been withdrawn from bank accounts of Madhav University (MU), Abu Road, Rajasthan, in March and June by its chairman Rajkumar Rana before his arrest in the fake degree scam on June 19. The MU is the sister concern of Manav Bharti University (MBU).

A case was registered against the chairman by the Solan police.

A Special Investigation Team (SIT), which is investigating the case, revealed this while scrutinising the bank accounts of the university.

A letter has also been written to the SSP at Sirohi in Rajasthan to investigate the case as unchecked answer sheets of the MU have also been found by SIT during a raid at the university, said Additional SP Shiv Kumar Sharma.

Sharma said 20 bank accounts of MU and family members of the chairman had been sealed as a huge amount had been withdrawn after the registration of the case.

The scrutiny revealed that Rs 1 crore was withdrawn on June 12 and Rs 40 lakh on June 23. A sum of Rs 50 lakh was withdrawn on March 9 after the registration of a case by the police on March 7.

The police are also inquiring why such a huge amount was withdrawn.

Rana had applied for an anticipatory bail on June 2, but it was rejected on June 19 and he was arrested. He is in judicial custody.

Case against advocate

In another development, the police have registered a case against an advocate who came from Hoshiarpur yesterday and told the police at the Timber Trail barrier at Parwanoo that he wanted to hand over a file to a colleague. However, he turned up at the District Courts in Solan in favour of Rana.

DSP, Parwanoo, Yogesh Rolta said since the advocate had gone to the Solan court without permission, a case had been registered against him and he had been sent to institutional quarantine. The advocate hails from Delhi, but has been putting up in Hoshiarpur for the past sometime.

20 bank accounts sealed

• The Additional SP said 20 bank accounts of MU and family members of the chairman had been sealed as a huge amount had been withdrawn after the registration of the case.
• The scrutiny revealed that Rs1 crore was withdrawn on June 12 and Rs40 lakh on June 23. A sum of Rs50 lakh was withdrawn on March 9 after the registration of a case on March 7.
• Rajkumar Rana had applied for an anticipatory bail on June 2, but it was rejected on June 19 and he was arrested.