A Special court for CBI cases on Wednesday ordered framing of charges against former Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss and others in two separate corruption cases.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has charged the former Minister with extending undue favours to two private medical colleges — Rohilkhand Medical College and Hospital (RMCH) at Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh by allegedly illegally granting renewal of approval for admissions to MBBS course in second year for 2008-09 academic session and allowing Index Medical College Hospital and Research Centre (IMCHRC) at Indore in Madhya Pradesh to proceed with admissions to MBBS course without sufficient faculty and clinical material.
Ordering framing of the charges, Special Judge A.K. Jain said: “Dr. Anbumani Ramadoss, KVS Rao and K.K. Aggarwal are prima facie found to have committee offence under Section 120-B IPC (criminal conspiracy) read with Section 13 (2) (d) and 13 (1) (d) of Prevention of Corruption Act and Sections 420 (cheating)/468 (forgery)/471 (using forged documents as genuine) IPC.”
“Furthermore, accused Anbumani Ramadoss and KVS Rao are also found to have prima facie committed substantive offences under Section 13 (2) read with Section 13 (1) (d) Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988. Accordingly, charges be framed against these accused persons,” Mr. Jain further said and put up the case on November 2 for framing of the charges.
The court passed a similar order in the second case as well. Charges in both cases will be framed on November 2.
It discharged seven accused persons in the two cases.
The Supreme Court had last year transferred the case relating to the RMCH from Lucknow to a Delhi court on a plea by Mr. Ramadoss. The investigating agency registered the second case here.
The probe agency alleged the then Minister had illegally permitted IMCHR to give admissions to the course in spite of recommendation against it by the Medical Council of India.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has charged the former Minister with extending undue favours to two private medical colleges
