LUCKNOW: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday carried out searches at seven places in 4 districts of Uttar Pradesh, together with Lucknow, Sitapur, Hardoi and Farrukhabad, in reference to a rip-off value round Rs 100 crore involving scholarship for disabled college students, which allegedly continued from 2013 to 2017 in the state.
The ED had registered a case beneath the Prevention of Cash Laundering Act in December 2022 in reference to the rip-off. The ED searches are on the premises of medical academic institutes providing programs in pharma research. The institutes are accused of receiving scholarships in the identify of scholars who have been by no means enrolled, and pretend certificates have been produced to get scholarship grants from the state authorities.
The ED stated that investigations revealed that personal medical institutes had connived with authorities officers, whose roles are being scanned, to acquire launch of scholarship funds for college students who by no means existed.
The staff first searched the premises of a non-public medical institute in Madiaon space of Lucknow, whereas searches have been carried out concurrently in Sitapur, Hardoi and Farrukhabad.
The UP vigilance division took up the investigation of the case after registering an FIR in 2017. Later, seeing the magnitude of the case, it was taken up by the ED for additional probe.
Sources in the ED stated that they’ve sought paperwork pertaining to college students enrolled between 2013 and 2017 and the charges paid by these college students throughout their course of research from medical establishments.
“Authorities of those medical schools have been requested to current these paperwork earlier than the ED zonal workplace inside ten days,” sources aware of the probe added.
The sources stated that the rip-off may even be way more than Rs 100 crore. The ED has presently taken up these institutes, the names of which had cropped up through the probe by the vigilance institution of UP.
The ED had registered a case beneath the Prevention of Cash Laundering Act in December 2022 in reference to the rip-off. The ED searches are on the premises of medical academic institutes providing programs in pharma research. The institutes are accused of receiving scholarships in the identify of scholars who have been by no means enrolled, and pretend certificates have been produced to get scholarship grants from the state authorities.
The ED stated that investigations revealed that personal medical institutes had connived with authorities officers, whose roles are being scanned, to acquire launch of scholarship funds for college students who by no means existed.
The staff first searched the premises of a non-public medical institute in Madiaon space of Lucknow, whereas searches have been carried out concurrently in Sitapur, Hardoi and Farrukhabad.
The UP vigilance division took up the investigation of the case after registering an FIR in 2017. Later, seeing the magnitude of the case, it was taken up by the ED for additional probe.
Sources in the ED stated that they’ve sought paperwork pertaining to college students enrolled between 2013 and 2017 and the charges paid by these college students throughout their course of research from medical establishments.
“Authorities of those medical schools have been requested to current these paperwork earlier than the ED zonal workplace inside ten days,” sources aware of the probe added.
The sources stated that the rip-off may even be way more than Rs 100 crore. The ED has presently taken up these institutes, the names of which had cropped up through the probe by the vigilance institution of UP.