New Delhi, July 06: A Delhi court on Tuesday remanded former Medical Council of India (MCI) president Ketan Desai to 14 days of judicial custody for allegedly possessing assets disproportionate to his known sources of income.
Special CBI Judge O P Saini sent Desai to jail till July 20 after he was produced at the end of his eight-day custodial interrogation in the case.
The court came down heavily on CBI for filing an application for extension of Desai’s police custody by six more days.
“You (CBI) cannot file such applications. The accused has already been in your custody for 14 days, which is the maximum period under the Act,” the judge said, after which the probe agency withdrew the plea.
CBI later filed a fresh application seeking judicial custody for the accused. The plea was allowed.
Desai, who was granted bail on June 22 in a case of alleged corruption for allegedly taking bribe to accord sanction to a private medical college in Punjab, was arrested afresh in the assets case.
He was granted bail as CBI failed to file a probe report against him within the prescribed limit of 60 days.
CBI had registered the DA case against Desai and his wife and mother in May for having assets worth over Rs 24 crore.
The former MCI president was arrested on April 22 by CBI along with three others for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs two crore to give permission to Gyan Sagar Medical College, Patiala, to recruit a fresh batch of students.
The Delhi High Court had earlier granted bail to Sukhwinder Singh, owner of Gyan Sagar Medical College, as also to Kanwaljit Singh, one of the professors of the college, and J P Singh, an alleged tout involved in the scam.
All the four have been booked under the Prevention of Corruption Act dealing with inducing a public servant to accept bribe, criminal misconduct and payment of money.
–Agencies