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| Court denies bail to 2 College owners, extends police remand | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, July 16: Special judge anti-corruption, Sanjay Dhar today rejected the bail applications of two college owners -- Munish Suri, promoter and sole trustee of Calliope ETT College, Kathua, and Sudarshan Kumar Gupta, chairman of Vivekanand Institute of Education, Training and Research, Lakhanpur, Kathua -- who are allegedly involved in the ETT Scam.
According to the crime branch (CB) FIR No 36/2013, a case was registered under sections 420, 468, 471 and 120-B of RPC and section 5(2) of P C Act at its Jammu police station after an inquiry conducted by Joint Secretary of J&K Board of School Education (BOSE) revealed that ETT (Elementary Teachers Training) course conducted by ETT Institutes in the State was a huge scandal where money in hundreds of crores had exchanged hands as bribe and almost all persons were involved in the loot. All sorts of malpractices had been done as neither registration of candidates was done in time nor classes were started nor the hostel facilities were provided. The candidates were lured and a huge amount ranging between Rs 45,000 to 80,000 was taken from each student each year for the two year course through touts for providing them the degrees/certificates by the erring institutions which did not fulfill even the basic norms and standards laid down by the National Council for Teachers Education (NCTE), but have been allowed / permitted to run this course by issuance of NOC from the state government which has to be granted after conducting the periodic inspections of these institutions for basic infrastructure purposes and NOC by the BOSE for academic purposes. This huge scandal was being run by a mafia in league with J&K Board of School Education authorities, who in furtherance of a criminal conspiracy with the management of these institutions had dishonestly and fraudulently granted affiliation/permission to these institutions in gross violation of the norms by abusing their official position.
The judge, after hearing a battery of lawyers appearing for the petitioners and the CB CPO, observed that perusal of the case diary reveals that investigation of the case is at its inception.
Although FIR in this case was been registered in 2013, it appears that the investigating agency had done precious little until High Court, vide its various orders, nudged it to take action. As per the July 9, 2015 of the high court in afore-noted PIL, the investigating agency has been asked to investigate the case from yet another point.
According to court, the investigation agency has to ascertain the wealth acquired by owners of the institutes by indulging in afore-noted activities and thereafter take a decision about the fate of the said property.
This aspect of the case, it appears, is yet to be investigated. The concession of bail if extended to petitioners at this stage is certainly going to hamper the investigation on this aspect of the case. The prayer for grant of bail to petitioners, therefore, appears to be premature and further observed that if accused/petitioners are admitted to bail at this stage, the same will not be in the larger interest of the public.
As already noted, owners of a large number of institutes and officers of BOSE appear to be involved neck deep in the case at hand.
The magnitude of fraud appears to be colossal in nature. The grant of bail to petitioners at this stage is certainly going to be against the interests of the public at large.
With these observations, the judge observed that in view the serious nature of allegations against the accused, the stage of investigation and the public interest, this court finds no compelling grounds to exercise its discretion for grant of bail in favour of petitioners and dismissed the same.The court also extended seven days police remand of the accused. (JNF)
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