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New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: Retired Orissa High Court judge Ishrat Masroor Quddusi and five others were arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) late last night in connection with a corruption case.
Quddusi is named as an accused in an FIR filed over allegations of bribery to settle a medical college recognition case in the Supreme Court.
The others arrested in the case are Bhawana Pandey, BP Yadav and Palash Yadav of the Prasad Educational Trust which runs a medical college in Lucknow, middleman Biswanath Agrawala and hawala operator Ramdev Saraswat.
Biswanath, a resident of Kanan Vihar in Bhubaneswar, was arrested with Rs 1 crore cash. “He was held while accepting cash on behalf of Quddusi from Hawala operator Saraswat,” said a CBI spokesperson today.
The arrests were made late last night after a detailed search operation at eight locations, including the residence of Justice (retired) Quddusi in Greater Kailash in New Delhi. Searches were also carried out in Bhubaneswar and Lucknow.
The spokesperson had yesterday said that a case was registered against them for allegedly trying to settle an ongoing matter related to a medical college that was barred from admitting new students.
Meanwhile, all the six accused including former Orissa High Court judge have been sent on four-day CBI remand after they were produced in the court in the afternoon.
