A Delhi court today issued a bailable warrant against former Health Minister, Mr Anbumani Ramadoss, after he failed to appear before it in a case of allegedly allowing a medical college to go ahead with admissions without having sufficient resources.
The Special CBI Judge, Mr Talwant Singh, issued a bailable warrant of Rs 10,000 against PMK leader, Mr Ramadoss, after the probe agency told the court that summons have not been served to him as he had gone to Bangalore from Chennai for medical treatment.
“I want his presence in the court. It seems Ramadoss is avoiding the summons. Let bailable warrants of a sum of Rs 10,000 be issued against him and the same should be executed by the DIG of concerned branch of the CBI for July 20,” the judge said.
Besides Mr Ramadoss, who was the Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare from May 2004 till April 2009 in UPA-I, CBI has filed a charge sheet against Mr K. V. S. Rao, Director in the Cabinet Secretariat, Mr Sudershan Kumar, Section Officer of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MHFW), and Dr J. S. Dhupia and Dr Dipendra Kumar Gupta of Safdarjung Hospital.
The charge sheet, filed before the Special CBI Judge, Mr Talwant Singh, also named Mr Suresh Singh Bhadoria, Chairman of Index Medical College Hospital and Research Centre (IMCHRC), Dr S. K. Tongia, ex-Dean of the college, Dr K. K. Saxena, Medical Director of the college, Mr Nitin Gothwal and Dr Pawan Bhambani.
According to the charge sheet, Mr Ramadoss and other accused conspired with each other in permitting IMCHRC admission for a second year despite the fact that the Medical Council of India (MCI) and a committee appointed by the Supreme Court had "repeatedly recommended" that IMCHRC did not have sufficient faculty and clinical material as required by MCI norms.
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