Income Tax Scrutiny Faced by Arrested Medical Council Chief and was Raided Earlier

On Saturday, a CBI source revealed that Medical Council of India President, Ketan Desai, who was arrested by CBI on Friday in a fraud case, was forayed previously by the bureau and income tax sleuths.

After inspection, bureaus found arcane receipts of Rs.6.5 million through bank drafts in the names of his wife, daughters and himself. Desai was isolated from the committee on basis of the Delh1 High Court.

Later, he was re-elected to the council.

According to the source, Desai and others were hindering from their inquiry.

On Friday, Desai was under arrest for demanding a huge bribe from a middleman, J.P. Singh who resides in Delhi and Dr. Kawaljeet Singh of Gian Sagar Medical College.

The CBI said that Desai was approached by Sukhwinder Singh, Vice Chairman of the Gian Sagar Charitable Trust and a trustee of the medical college, through J.P. Singh.
The approach was to discover ways to surmount the deficits concerning infrastructure of the college and to get consent from MCI' to begin admissions.

CBI has taken all of them in custody.