Kerala. ED on Monday conducted a raid at the Mateer Memorial Church in Kerala’s capital city following allegations of corruption at the Church-run medical college at Karakonam.
The ED also raided the headquarters of the CSI South Kerala diocese, which houses the office of Church supreme leader Bishop A Dharmaraj Rasalam.
According to the allegations, huge amounts of money were taken on the pretext of offering admission to medical college.
Simultaneous raids were also carried out at the residences of Church’s secretary TT Praveen and the medical director of CSI Medical College, Karakonam Dr. Bennet Abraham.
The raids are being conducted in a case registered under the money laundering act. Even though the ED had earlier asked the bishop to appear before it for interrogation, he had not appeared, it is learnt.
In February this year, the high court had quashed a report by state crime branch including Dharmaraj Rasalam and Bennett Abraham, that had given them a clean chit in a probe into alleged financial irregularities in Karakaonam medical college.
As many as 24 complainants had then come up with allegations that the college authorities did not grant the seats for MBBS and MD courses after taking money from them. The cases were registered in Neyyattinkara, Vellarada and Museum police stations in the capital.
