The central agency Enforcement Directorate (ED) conducted a joint raid on 20 private medical colleges in the state. On Tuesday, after conducting marathon searches and interrogations at two private medical colleges in Kankasa block of Durgapur subdivision and a medical college in Bijra, Durgapur, the ED took away clones of hard drives and many important documents, according to sources. Incidentally, it is worth noting that there have been allegations of widespread corruption in the admission of medical students under the NRI quota in all these private medical colleges in the state for several years. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials conducted a joint raid on these 20 colleges to investigate the matter. However, it is also known from sources that the ED officials have also questioned some influential people in the ownership of these colleges. It is also known that the ED officials are also investigating the involvement of political figures in the ownership of these colleges. Searches were already conducted in various parts of the state for education recruitment, civil recruitment. Now the central investigation agency ED is conducting a drive on allegations of corruption in medicine as well. Since Tuesday morning, raids were conducted at a private medical college hospital adjacent to Shobhapur in Durgapur, private medical college hospital in Malandighi in Kanksha and private medical college hospital in Rajbandh in Kanksha. Along with this, the raids were also conducted at the house of Parthar Bidhannagar, owner of Malandighi Medical College Hospital, and the house of Ranindranath Majumdar, owner of Rajbandh Private Medical College Hospital, in Panagarh. It has been learned from sources that there are allegations of fraud against these medical college hospitals in the seats reserved for non-resident Indians (NRIs). It remains to be seen what information the ED officials finally came up with as evidence of corruption in the marathon raid. Although the authorities of the three private medical colleges in Durgapur have not said anything to the media about this matter.
ED raids multiple private medical colleges in Durgapur, seizes hard disks!
